Productivity, environmental impacts and tradeoffs of livestock intensification options in Tanga region, Tanzania
10th of December 2015, 3rd Tanga Dairy Stakeholders’ platform meeting
• Enteric fermentation is the largest contributor to GHG emissions
• Emission intensities are higher for mixed crop-livestock systems when measured per area, but lower per liter milk produced
• N balances are negative for mixed farming, and positive for agro-pastoralists due to the manure produced by the relatively big herd
• Livestock intensification strategies result in almost all cases in lower emission intensities, especially in the agro-pastoral system
• Improved livestock feeding through planted forages is a promising option, both for productivity (especially under intercropping and manure) and environment
• Further work is done to assess farm and landscape scale tradeoffs between productivity and environmental impacts
Издатель: CIAT
Автор: Birthe Paul
Другие авторы: An Notenbaert, Catherine Pfeifer, Joanne Morris, Julius Bwire, Amos Omore
Организация: CIAT
Год: 2015
Страна/страны: United Republic of Tanzania
Географический охват: Африки
Категория: Доклад
Язык контента: English