Sustainable milk and beef production in Nicaragua: actions and opportunities for an inclusive value chain

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversidad Nacional Agraria, Nicaraguaen
cg.contributor.crpLivestock and Fish
cg.coverage.countryNicaragua
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NI
cg.coverage.regionCentral America
cg.coverage.regionLatin America
cg.creator.identifierRein van der Hoek: 0000-0003-4528-7669en
cg.creator.identifierOjango J.M.K.: 0000-0003-0224-5370en
cg.identifier.urlhttp://www.tropentag.de/abstract.php?code=0LF5CPDVen
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/tropentag2016-hoeken
cg.subject.ciatLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriVALUE CHAINSen
cg.subject.ilriCATTLEen
dc.contributor.authorHoek, Rein van deren
dc.contributor.authorMena Urbina, Martin A.en
dc.contributor.authorCorrales, Roldanen
dc.contributor.authorMora Benard, María Alejandraen
dc.contributor.authorBoekhorst, Jeanneen
dc.contributor.authorOjango, Julie M.K.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-14T15:34:46Zen
dc.date.available2016-09-14T15:34:46Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/77048
dc.titleSustainable milk and beef production in Nicaragua: actions and opportunities for an inclusive value chainen
dcterms.abstractIn Nicaragua the cattle sector accounts for 36% of agricultural exports and presents an important opportunity for smallholder farmer livelihoods. Current extensive dual-purpose (milk and beef) cattle production leads to soil degradation, deforestation, high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per unit of product, and a shift of the agricultural frontier towards the vulnerable Caribbean region. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish is implementing activities to make the dual-purpose cattle value chain more efficient, competitive and inclusive, with a specific focus on gender equality. Feed and forages work has improved the productivity of forage-based livestock production (up to 100% in terms of kg milk/ha), increased carbon accumulation and at the same time reduced its ecological footprint (by over 50% in terms of GHG emissions per unit of product) as part of LivestockPlus. This concept addresses sustainable intensification in three ways: socioeconomic – market opportunities and policy application; ecological – improved farm and natural resource management practices; and genetic – improved forage cultivars. Work on genetic improvement of cattle has included establishing an information, input, and service data platform linked to breed improvement in a wider farm-household context. It involves continuous monitoring and assessment of the performance of the predominant breed-types reared by 155 farmers in central Nicaragua as an initial step towards informing development of breeding strategies for dual purpose cattle in mixed farming systems. In collaboration with a farmers cooperative, capacity development in Farmer Field Schools and on-farm research involving 1000 farmers has resulted in increased productivity (milk by 40%, liveweight by 70%), income (by 20%) and natural resource integrity (establishment of 4,000 ha of silvopastoral systems). Strategic alliances have been developed between value chain actors (farmers' organisations, NGOs, research, private sector with a focus on value addition to livestock products while increasing gender equity. In general, however, adoption of improved technologies and practices is still low. There is therefore a strong need for an increased policy incidence on sustainable livestock development and incentive mechanisms for farmers and other value chain actors, including certification of sustainable livestock products.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHoek, R. van der, Mena, M., Corrales, R., Mora, M.A. and Ojango, J. 2016. Sustainable milk and beef production in Nicaragua: Actions and opportunities for an inclusive value chain. Poster prepared for the Tropentag 2016 Conference on Solidarity in a Competing World—Fair Use of Resources, Vienna, Austria, 19–21 September 2016. Cali, Colombia: CIAT.en
dcterms.issued2016-09-19en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
dcterms.subjectmilken
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.subjectvalue chainen
dcterms.subjectganadoen
dcterms.subjectlecheen
dcterms.subjectcadena de valoren
dcterms.typePoster

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