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Resilience and Economic Growth in Arid Lands - Accelerated Growth in Kenya: Mitigation co-benefits of herd size and feed quality management

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Title Resilience and Economic Growth in Arid Lands - Accelerated Growth in Kenya: Mitigation co-benefits of herd size and feed quality management
 
Creator Nash, Julie
Grewer, Uwe
Bockel, Louis
Galford, Gillian L.
 
Subject climate change
food security
agriculture
livestock
 
Description The agricultural development project Resilience and Economic Growth in Arid Lands – Accelerated Growth (REGAL-AG) has promoted improved livestock management that resulted in a decrease in net emissions of 10%. Since emissions from livestock account for the majority of Kenya’s agricultural emissions (95%), reduction of emissions in the livestock sector has high potential impact. REGAL-AG’s interventions have sought to improve links between livestock producers and buyers, to boost producer access to critical inputs, and to increase availability of timely market information, which resulted in a decrease in slaughter age for all livestock types. REGAL- AG anticipated that these dynamics, coupled
with the program outreach activities, could result in a 10% decrease in herd size, which drives the greater share of emission reductions. Increases in productivity (50–67%) and
decreases in absolute emissions (-10%) that resulted from REGAL-AG’s interventions
decreased the emission intensity 33-40% (emissions per unit production) for all livestock
types.
 
Date 2016-11-09
2016-11-09T19:07:19Z
2016-11-09T19:07:19Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Nash J, Grewer U, Bockel L, Galford G, Pirolli G, White J. 2016. Resilience and Economic Growth in Arid Lands – Accelerated Growth in Kenya: Mitigation co-benefits of herd size and feed quality management. CCAFS Info Note. Copenhagen, Denmark: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77632
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Language en
 
Relation CCAFS Info Note
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf