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
Publisher: CIAT
Author: Birthe Paul
Other authors: An Notenbaert, Catherine Pfeifer, Joanne Morris, Julius Bwire, Amos Omore
Organization: CIAT
Year: 2015
Country/ies: United Republic of Tanzania
Geographical coverage: Africa
Type: Report
Full text available at: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/70983/cleaned_paul_tanga_dec2015.pdf
Content language: English