Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio
This report provides an initial, rapid assessment of a selection of programmes in the commercial agricultural portfolio of the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DfID) (now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offices or FCDO) to demonstrate a range of interventions...
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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| author | Costa, Ciniro Dittmer, Kyle M Oliveira Quintana, Gabriel de Shelton, Sadie W. Wollenberg, Eva Karoline |
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| description | This report provides an initial, rapid assessment of a selection of programmes in the commercial agricultural portfolio of the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DfID) (now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offices or FCDO) to demonstrate a range of interventions and their likely net greenhouse gas (GHG) emission impacts. Analysis of crop and livestock value chains in seven countries, representing over four million hectares, shows that the changes in farmers’ practices supported by DfID’s bilateral investments in commercial agriculture significantly enhance crop and livestock production, while likely reducing net GHG emissions in the near term. The programme value chains increased average crop productivity by 1.0 ton per hectare per year (t ha-1 y-1), and reduced net GHG emissions by as much as 5.5 tCO2e ha-1 y-1 (cocoa agroforestry) compared to the start of the programme. Cereals demonstrated smaller annual changes, averaging a reduction of 0.80 tCO2e ha-1 y-1. Livestock productivity only increased slightly on average from 1.0 (goats) to 3.0 kg head-1 y-1 (beef cattle), with corresponding slight reductions in net GHG emissions from 0.001 (goats) to 0.01 (beef cattle) tCO2e head-1 y-1. Increases in emissions across the programmes are commonly due to increased use of nitrogen fertiliser and mechanisation. Reductions are commonly due to carbon sequestration in the soil as a result of manure addition, minimum tillage, crop rotation or reduced burning. These results are consistent with the increased use of inputs expected from market-driven agricultural intensification. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1105752024-01-23T12:03:44Z Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio Costa, Ciniro Dittmer, Kyle M Oliveira Quintana, Gabriel de Shelton, Sadie W. Wollenberg, Eva Karoline climate change agriculture food security crops postharvest losses food losses cattle livestock rice land use change poultry soil soil organic carbon carbon sequestration forest conservation This report provides an initial, rapid assessment of a selection of programmes in the commercial agricultural portfolio of the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DfID) (now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offices or FCDO) to demonstrate a range of interventions and their likely net greenhouse gas (GHG) emission impacts. Analysis of crop and livestock value chains in seven countries, representing over four million hectares, shows that the changes in farmers’ practices supported by DfID’s bilateral investments in commercial agriculture significantly enhance crop and livestock production, while likely reducing net GHG emissions in the near term. The programme value chains increased average crop productivity by 1.0 ton per hectare per year (t ha-1 y-1), and reduced net GHG emissions by as much as 5.5 tCO2e ha-1 y-1 (cocoa agroforestry) compared to the start of the programme. Cereals demonstrated smaller annual changes, averaging a reduction of 0.80 tCO2e ha-1 y-1. Livestock productivity only increased slightly on average from 1.0 (goats) to 3.0 kg head-1 y-1 (beef cattle), with corresponding slight reductions in net GHG emissions from 0.001 (goats) to 0.01 (beef cattle) tCO2e head-1 y-1. Increases in emissions across the programmes are commonly due to increased use of nitrogen fertiliser and mechanisation. Reductions are commonly due to carbon sequestration in the soil as a result of manure addition, minimum tillage, crop rotation or reduced burning. These results are consistent with the increased use of inputs expected from market-driven agricultural intensification. 2020-12-18 2020-12-18T21:06:43Z 2020-12-18T21:06:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110575 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Costa Jr C, Dittmer K, de Oliveira Quintana G, Shelton S, Wollenberg E. 2020. Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio. CCAFS Working Paper no. 331 Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). |
| spellingShingle | climate change agriculture food security crops postharvest losses food losses cattle livestock rice land use change poultry soil soil organic carbon carbon sequestration forest conservation Costa, Ciniro Dittmer, Kyle M Oliveira Quintana, Gabriel de Shelton, Sadie W. Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio |
| title | Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio |
| title_full | Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio |
| title_fullStr | Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio |
| title_short | Climate change impacts of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) commercial agriculture portfolio |
| title_sort | climate change impacts of the uk foreign commonwealth development office fcdo commercial agriculture portfolio |
| topic | climate change agriculture food security crops postharvest losses food losses cattle livestock rice land use change poultry soil soil organic carbon carbon sequestration forest conservation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110575 |
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