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Integrated crop-livestock systems − a key to sustainable intensification in Africa

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Title Integrated crop-livestock systems − a key to sustainable intensification in Africa
 
Creator Duncan, Alan
 
Contributor Tarawali, Shirley
Thorne, Peter
Valbuena, Diego
Descheemaeker, Katrien
Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine
 
Subject mixed crop-livestock
 
Description Mixed crop-livestock systems provide livelihoods for a billion people and produce half the world’s cereal and around a third of its beef and milk. Market orientation and strong and growing demand for food provide powerful incentives for sustainable intensification of both crop and livestock enterprises in smallholders’ mixed systems in Africa. Better exploita-tion of the mutually reinforcing nature of crop and livestock systems can contribute to a positive, inclusive growth trajectory that is both ecologically and economically sustainable. In mixed systems, livestock intensification is often ne-glected relative to crops, yet livestock can make a positive contribution to raising productivity of the entire farming system. Similarly, intensification of crop production can pay dividends for livestock and enhance natural resource management, especially through increased biomass availability. Intensification and improved efficiency of livestock production mean less greenhouse gases per unit of milk and more milk per unit of water. This paper argues that the opportunities and challenges justify greater investment in research for development to identify exactly where and how ‘win-win’ outcomes can be achieved and what incentives, policies, technologies and other features of the enabling environment are needed to enable sustainable, integrated and productive mixed crop-livestock systems
 
Date 2013-11-30
2017-01-05T19:39:47Z
2017-01-05T19:39:47Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/hZiHb4vm
Alan Duncan, Shirley Tarawali, Peter Thorne, Diego Valbuena, Katrien Descheemaeker, Sabine Homann-Kee Tui. (30/11/2013). Integrated crop-livestock systems − a key to sustainable intensification in Africa. Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, 1, pp. 202-206.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/5170
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
 
Source Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales;1,(2013) Pagination 202,206