Climate change adaptation through planted forages in Southern Highlands, Tanzania

Smallholder farmers (SF) are the biggest food producers in Tanzania (TZ), where hetero- geneous mixed crop-livestock farming systems dominate agriculture (Fig 1). Feed scarcity and quality are major issues facing smallholder dairy farmers in Tanzania. Climate projections for Tanzania indicate incre...

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Autores principales: Mukiri, Jessica, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Prestwidge, Di, Ash, Andrew J., Paul, Birthe K.
Formato: Póster
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Center for Tropical Agriculture 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106079
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author Mukiri, Jessica
Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
Prestwidge, Di
Ash, Andrew J.
Paul, Birthe K.
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description Smallholder farmers (SF) are the biggest food producers in Tanzania (TZ), where hetero- geneous mixed crop-livestock farming systems dominate agriculture (Fig 1). Feed scarcity and quality are major issues facing smallholder dairy farmers in Tanzania. Climate projections for Tanzania indicate increased length of dry seasons and severity of periodic droughts. These expected impacts will affect farm productivity, leaving farmers more vulnerable. The planting of improved grass and legume forages, if properly managed, has the potential to improve livestock productivity and resilience which can help SF adapt to climate change
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spelling CGSpace1060792025-11-05T17:46:50Z Climate change adaptation through planted forages in Southern Highlands, Tanzania Mukiri, Jessica Notenbaert, An Maria Omer Prestwidge, Di Ash, Andrew J. Paul, Birthe K. climate change cambio climático forages livestock smallholder farmers farming systems milk production productivity legumes yields Smallholder farmers (SF) are the biggest food producers in Tanzania (TZ), where hetero- geneous mixed crop-livestock farming systems dominate agriculture (Fig 1). Feed scarcity and quality are major issues facing smallholder dairy farmers in Tanzania. Climate projections for Tanzania indicate increased length of dry seasons and severity of periodic droughts. These expected impacts will affect farm productivity, leaving farmers more vulnerable. The planting of improved grass and legume forages, if properly managed, has the potential to improve livestock productivity and resilience which can help SF adapt to climate change 2019 2019-12-09T18:50:25Z 2019-12-09T18:50:25Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106079 en Open Access application/pdf International Center for Tropical Agriculture Mukiri, Jessica; Notenbaert, An; Prestwidge, Di; Ash, Andrew & Paul, Birthe (2019). Climate change adaptation through planted forages in Southern Highlands, Tanzania. International Center for Tropical Agriculture, 1 p.
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cambio climático
forages
livestock
smallholder
farmers
farming systems
milk production
productivity
legumes
yields
Mukiri, Jessica
Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
Prestwidge, Di
Ash, Andrew J.
Paul, Birthe K.
Climate change adaptation through planted forages in Southern Highlands, Tanzania
title Climate change adaptation through planted forages in Southern Highlands, Tanzania
title_full Climate change adaptation through planted forages in Southern Highlands, Tanzania
title_fullStr Climate change adaptation through planted forages in Southern Highlands, Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed Climate change adaptation through planted forages in Southern Highlands, Tanzania
title_short Climate change adaptation through planted forages in Southern Highlands, Tanzania
title_sort climate change adaptation through planted forages in southern highlands tanzania
topic climate change
cambio climático
forages
livestock
smallholder
farmers
farming systems
milk production
productivity
legumes
yields
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