CLEANED: a tool for flagging and addressing environmental issues in livestock production systems

CLEANED: a tool for flagging and addressing environmental issues in livestock production systems

30 Nov 2022

carbon storage, food production, biodiversity, … For PEOPLE And the PLANET Spatial targeting Land productivity↗ • Employment, income • Biggest land user • Economy • Natural resources: • Food and nutrition • Manure, soil carbon, energy… • Cultural value • Water use/pollution, degradation, GHGe… • Resilience and risk management Reduce numbers Sustainability is a big issue and needs to be managed (or. [...] What is CLEANED The CLEANED tool lets users explore multiple impacts of Land requirements developing livestock value chains in Productivity explicit ways. [...] GHG emissions The Architecture Inputs Outputs Group CLEANED tool INPUT tab User Calculations Back end calculations Reports (Multiple tabs) Summary and individual (Multiple tabs) Parameter Model parameters (Multiple tabs) Location Define location A process for the calculation of Site- and System-specific Livestock Describe system environmental footprints Describe Livestock enterprise and management. [...] • Potential reduction in total GHG emissions in Muheza lowland driven by improved feed efficiency and lower animal numbers • More land required in Muheza highland and Hai but less in Muheza lowland, driven by high yield of improved forages and reduced animal numbers as compared to baseline Conclusions • Positive and negative impacts of livestock are two sides of the same coin, we need to manage th. [...] Assessing the environmental impacts of livestock production using the CLEANED approach.

Authors

Capozio, Nora (Bioversity)

Pages
23
Published in
France

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