Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) in Ethiopia: Mitigation co-benefits of livestock productivity

Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) showed a notable decrease in emission intensity (GHG emissions per unit of meat or milk). PRIME enabled farmers to increase production significantly, between 24% and 96%, which led to a decrease in emission intensity ran...

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Main Authors: Nash, Julie, Grewer, Uwe, Bockel, Louis, Galford, Gillian L., Pirolli, Gillian, White, Julianna M.
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77619
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author Nash, Julie
Grewer, Uwe
Bockel, Louis
Galford, Gillian L.
Pirolli, Gillian
White, Julianna M.
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Galford, Gillian L.
Grewer, Uwe
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description Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) showed a notable decrease in emission intensity (GHG emissions per unit of meat or milk). PRIME enabled farmers to increase production significantly, between 24% and 96%, which led to a decrease in emission intensity ranging from -4% to -42%.  Due to improvements in feed quantity, PRIME projected an increase in average animal weight for all livestock (8.3 million head), which resulted in an increase in GHG emissions by an estimated 1.5 million tCO2e/yr.  PRIME empowered stakeholders collectively to design and establish plans for effective management of pastures and water. The project supported soil and water conservation measures, enclosing degraded pastures, selective bush thinning, and clearing the invasive plant Prosopis. These practices improved pasture plant quality and reduced bare soil and overgrazing, which resulted in increased sequestration of soil carbon. These grassland improvements were estimated to sequester -0.1 million tCO2e/yr.
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spelling CGSpace776192024-01-23T12:04:36Z Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) in Ethiopia: Mitigation co-benefits of livestock productivity Nash, Julie Grewer, Uwe Bockel, Louis Galford, Gillian L. Pirolli, Gillian White, Julianna M. climate agriculture livestock climate change food security Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) showed a notable decrease in emission intensity (GHG emissions per unit of meat or milk). PRIME enabled farmers to increase production significantly, between 24% and 96%, which led to a decrease in emission intensity ranging from -4% to -42%.  Due to improvements in feed quantity, PRIME projected an increase in average animal weight for all livestock (8.3 million head), which resulted in an increase in GHG emissions by an estimated 1.5 million tCO2e/yr.  PRIME empowered stakeholders collectively to design and establish plans for effective management of pastures and water. The project supported soil and water conservation measures, enclosing degraded pastures, selective bush thinning, and clearing the invasive plant Prosopis. These practices improved pasture plant quality and reduced bare soil and overgrazing, which resulted in increased sequestration of soil carbon. These grassland improvements were estimated to sequester -0.1 million tCO2e/yr. 2016-11-07 2016-11-08T15:26:28Z 2016-11-08T15:26:28Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77619 en Open Access application/pdf Nash J, Grewer U, Bockel L, Galford G, Pirolli G, White J. 2016. Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) in Ethiopia: Mitigation co-benefits of livestock productivity. CCAFS Info Note. Copenhagen, Denmark: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
spellingShingle climate
agriculture
livestock
climate change
food security
Nash, Julie
Grewer, Uwe
Bockel, Louis
Galford, Gillian L.
Pirolli, Gillian
White, Julianna M.
Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) in Ethiopia: Mitigation co-benefits of livestock productivity
title Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) in Ethiopia: Mitigation co-benefits of livestock productivity
title_full Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) in Ethiopia: Mitigation co-benefits of livestock productivity
title_fullStr Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) in Ethiopia: Mitigation co-benefits of livestock productivity
title_full_unstemmed Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) in Ethiopia: Mitigation co-benefits of livestock productivity
title_short Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) in Ethiopia: Mitigation co-benefits of livestock productivity
title_sort pastoralist areas resilience improvement through market expansion prime in ethiopia mitigation co benefits of livestock productivity
topic climate
agriculture
livestock
climate change
food security
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77619
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