Climate Change

Low Carbon and Resilient Livestock Development Strategies for Climate Informed Investments

Project's full title	Low Carbon and Resilient Livestock Development Strategies for Climate Informed Investments
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Countries	Argentina Brazil Georgia Kyrgyzstan Lesotho Malawi Rwanda Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Start date	01/03/2021
End date	31/01/2024
Status	Ongoing
Recipient / Target Areas	Argentina, Brazil, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Project Code	GCP /GLO/247/IFA
Objective / Goal	Technical support to reduce the environmental impacts of IFAD investments while improving food security and enhancing capacities at institutional and government levels, as part of the second phase of Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP2).
Partners	IFAD
Beneficiaries	Countries and IFAD projects: Brazil, Rural Development: Rural Sustainable Development Project in the Semi-arid Region of Bahia (PSA) Argentina, Promotion of Resilient and Sustainable Agrifood Systems for Family Farming Programme (PROSAF) Uzbekistan, Dairy Value Chains Development Project II (DVCDP II) Georgia, Dairy Modernisation and Market Access Project (DiMMA) Kyrgyzstan, Regional Resilient Pastoral Communities Project (RRPCP) Tajikistan, Community-based Agricultural Support Project (CASP+) Tajikistan, Livestock and Pasture Development Project Phase II (LPDPII) Malawi, Transforming Agriculture through Diversification and Entrepreneurship Programme (TRADE) Rwanda, Rwanda Dairy Development Project (RDDP) Rwanda Dairy Development Project (RDDP) – Phase 2 (RDDP 2) Lesotho, Restoration of Landscapes and Livelihoods (ROLL) Lesotho Wool and Mohair Value Chain Competitiveness Project (WaMCoP)
Impact	The project, jointly implemented by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, aims to develop low-emission development strategies for livestock interventions through the use of the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model-interactive (GLEAM-i) and the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE). It elaborates on the strategies to improve livestock practices in order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while improving food security. This will contribute to enhancing resilience and strengthening farmer livelihoods - outcomes that the IFAD-funded projects aim to achieve. A component of the project also aims to improve capacities by conducting a series of training courses on GLEAM-i and TAPE to ensure the uptake of both tools by the relevant stakeholders. GLEAM-i estimates livestock GHG emissions following a life cycle assessment approach. It uses the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Tier 2 methodology and generates baseline and improved scenarios of herd management, feeding and manure management. TAPE, on the other hand, is an analytical framework that uses agroecology to assess the overall sustainability of productive systems and measure their performance across the different dimensions of sustainability. The project is funded by the second phase of IFAD’s Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP2).
Contact	Dominik Wisser (Livestock policy officer) [email protected] Hisham Zehni (Climate and environment senior specialist) [email protected] Şeyda Özkan (Livestock and climate change specialist) [email protected] Phyllis Wanjugu Ndung’u (Livestock and climate change specialist) [email protected] Erica Doro (Climate and environment specialist) [email protected] Dario Lucantoni (Agroecology and livestock specialist) [email protected]
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More on this topic	GLEAM resources GLEAM-i tool TAPE webpage Agroecology Knowledge Hub
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