Fraval, Simon

Herrero, Mario T.

Lannerstad, Mats

McFadzean, J.

Morris, J.

Notenbaert, An Maria Omer

Paul, Birthe K.

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Maziwa Zaidi (More Milk) in Tanzania Towards climate-smart dairy developmentNotenbaert A.(CIAT), Paul B.K. (CIAT), McFadzean J. (Rothamsted), Fraval S. (ILRI), Morris J. (SEI), Herrero M. (CSIRO), Lannerstad M.(ILRI)Key messages• Dairy development can improve the welfare of producers and their market agents• BUT it also has the potential to harm the environment• It is thus important to estimate such environmental impact before investing• Productivity-increasing interventions (such as improved breeds, improved animal health, improved markets, improved feeding) increase the overall use of natural resources – despite more efficient use of resources• This points to the need for appropriate manure and soil fertility managementOpportunities for inclusive investment and scaling• This study demonstrates that rapid assessments of alternative intervention scenarios can provide useful information supporting climate-smart livestock development.• Efforts to increase the uptake of appropriate manure and soil fertility management will be needed to ensure sustainable development of the dairy sector.PicturesKey results• Due to current low productivity in agro-pastoral systems, productivity and production as well as resource use efficiency are likely to increase.• Productivity-enhancing interventions can result in mitigation co-benefits across the different systems. • Most interventions are likely to increase nutrient (N) losses in mixed systems.This document is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. April 2017Objectives and approach • Livestock production is a key driver of global environmental change.• Before embarking on large-scale development projects targeting intensification of livestock production and value chain transformation, it is important to assess potential environmental impacts. • We developed a framework for ex-ante assessments of environmental impacts of development interventions, to assess the potential environmental impacts of four intervention scenarios: (i) introduction of improved breeds, (ii) reduced seasonality of feed availability (iii) improved animal health, (iv) these three technology interventions packaged together.• We described their impact on productivity, GHG mitigation potential, erosion rates and nutrient balances in (i) extensive agro-pastoral and (ii) more intensive crop-livestock systems in Tanga.Maziwa Zaidi thanks all donors and organizations which globally support the work of ILRI and its partners through their contributions to the CGIAR system

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