Adaptation opportunities for smallholder dairy farmers facing resource scarcity: Integrated livestock, water and land management

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Fort Hareen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversität Hohenheimen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Nebraskaen
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorDepartment for International Development, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaften
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierJoseph O Ogutu: 0000-0002-7379-0387
cg.creator.identifierBen Lukuyu: 0000-0002-9374-3553
cg.creator.identifierMark van Wijk: 0000-0003-0728-8839
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2019.106592en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0167-8809en
cg.journalAgriculture, Ecosystems and Environmenten
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTIONen
cg.subject.ilriDAIRYINGen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriNRMen
cg.subject.ilriWATERen
cg.volume284en
dc.contributor.authorBosire, Caroline K.en
dc.contributor.authorRao, E.J.O.en
dc.contributor.authorMuchenje, V.en
dc.contributor.authorWijk, Mark T. vanen
dc.contributor.authorOgutu, J.O.en
dc.contributor.authorMekonnen, M.en
dc.contributor.authorAuma, Joseph O.en
dc.contributor.authorLukuyu, Ben A.en
dc.contributor.authorHammond, Jamesen
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-02T13:24:46Zen
dc.date.available2019-08-02T13:24:46Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/102415
dc.titleAdaptation opportunities for smallholder dairy farmers facing resource scarcity: Integrated livestock, water and land managementen
dcterms.abstractDairy intensification is a widely used means of achieving food security, improving farmer incomes and enhancing overall economic growth. However, intensification is dependent upon the availability and suitability of natural resources to sustain growth in production. Here, land and water footprints of milk production in three contrasting agro-ecological zones ranging from humid to semi-arid across nine counties of Kenya are quantified. Water and land use footprints across three potential intensification pathways are also outlined and evaluated against the baseline scenario, the currently prevailing practices or the S1 Futures scenario, treated as the benchmark. Intensification pathways focusing on improving livestock breeds, feed provisioning and milk output per cow and distinguished by contrasting management practices perform differentially across the three agro-ecological zones. Total water and land footprints increase for all scenarios relative to the baseline scenario. In particular, all the breed improvement scenarios, have much larger total water footprints than the baseline scenario. Improvement in breed to pure bred cattle across all production systems has the largest total water footprint across all the production systems. Across all the scenarios, the largest reduction in water footprint of milk production (75%) occurs with improvement in breed and feeding practices from two scenarios in the lowlands. Milk production by the cross-bred cattle is most efficient in the lowlands system whereas milk production by the pure breed Ayrshire is most land use efficient in the midlands system. Across the three agroecological zones, improving breeds, feed provisioning and milk production per cow may achieve production intensification but concurrently exacerbates resource limitation. Consequently, the heterogeneity inherent in resource availability across dairy production zones should be considered when developing strategies for increasing dairy production.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBosire, C., Rao, E.J.O., Muchenje, V., Wijk, M.T. van., Ogutu, J.O., Mekonnend, M., Auma, J.O., Lukuyu, B.A. and Hammond, J. 2019. Adaptation opportunities for smallholder dairy farmers facing resource scarcity: Integrated livestock, water and land management. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 284: 106592en
dcterms.issued2019-11
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectdairyingen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.subjectlanden
dcterms.subjectmanagementen
dcterms.subjectwateren
dcterms.subjectecologyen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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