Greenhouse gas emission and mitigation potential from livestock production in the drylands of Northern Ethiopia

Menghistu, Habtamu Taddele; Abraha, Amanuel Zenebe; Mawcha, Gebrehiwot Tadesse; Tesfay, Girmay; Mersha, Tadesse Teferi; Redda, Yisehak Tsegaye

doi:10.1080/17583004.2021.1921620

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“…Consequently, these tools allow for a more in-depth exploration of the observed relationships, using more recent temporal information. Several studies have delved into this approach [ [104] , [105] , [106] ]).…”

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confidence: 99%

Long-term relationships of beef and dairy cattle and greenhouse gas emissions: Application of co-integrated panel models for Latin America

Sandoval,

Junca Paredes,

Enciso Valencia

et al. 2024

Heliyon

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-term relationships of beef and dairy cattle and greenhouse gas emissions: Application of co-integrated panel models for Latin America

Sandoval,

Junca Paredes,

Enciso Valencia

et al. 2024

Heliyon

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“…are among the most common types of livestock production practiced by farmers in rural areas (Devendra and Chantalakhana, 2002;Gauthier and Langlois, 2010). Recent studies have reported that poultry farming is among the most environmentally friendly animal production and the least greenhouse gas emitting compared to other types of animal production such as cattle and other ruminants, which emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases and whose production is highly dependent on vegetation cover (Menghistu et al, 2021;NDC, 2021;Zubir et al, 2021).…”

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Determinants of Farmers' Participation in the Agricultural Sector Support Project for the Adoption of Improved Technology in Traditional Poultry Farming: Evidence from Rural Togo

Soviadan

Enete²,

Okoye³

et al. 2023

JAEID

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The adoption of improved technologies in agriculture has been shown to improve incomes, reduce poverty and contribute to rural development in many developing nations. In Togo, the Agricultural Sector Support Project (PASA) assists smallholder farmers in the adoption of the Improved Technology in Traditional Poultry Farming (ITTPF) in rural areas as a means of increasing smallholder incomes, enhancing food security and reducing poverty. However, the adoption rate is currently below expectations, especially given the promise it holds not only from an economic perspective but also from a broad environmental sustainability viewpoint since poultry manure can be used as a necessary input in smallholder farms. In this study, we examine the factors associated with the participation of farmers in PASA for the adoption of ITTPF in Togo. Our analysis covers 400 smallholder households in the 23 districts of Togo and employs Logit model with Probit model as robustness check. We find different socio-economic constraints and enablers of participation in PASA. Particularly, level of education, household size, membership in cooperative societies, hatching rate of eggs, farm size, average annual sale of poultry and self-financing capacity were positively and significantly related to the participation of farmers in PASA. The findings are robust to alternative specifications such as Probit model. Based on the findings, we argue that participation in agricultural innovation and development programs depends on the information accessible to farmers. One medium to improve information access could be agricultural cooperatives and extension services since they provide informal education, training, and access to productive inputs for farming and marketing purposes. Our findings suggest the need for agricultural policies which promote farmer organizations such as agricultural cooperatives coupled with effective extension services to enable the adoption of improved agricultural technologies.

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“…Whereas gas-wise it is dominated by CH 4 contributing 80% of the total CO 2 equivalent emissions in 1994 [52] and most of this contribution is from less productive livestock. Even in current times, cattle take more than 80% of the share of CH 4 emission in Ethiopia [53,54]. Based on IPCC [55] guidelines, methane emissions from enteric fermentation are estimated using equation 1 for eight major livestock subcategories in Ethiopia (Table 3).…”

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The Climate Change-Agriculture Nexus in Drylands of Ethiopia

Mekonnen¹

2023

Environmental Sciences

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The objective of this chapter is to review the impacts of climate change on dryland agriculture and its possible solutions. Climate change poses significant challenges on dryland agriculture in Ethiopia. In turn, agriculture (malpractice) has contributed to climate change by emitting GHGs such as CO2, CH4 and N2O. Globally, agriculture’s contribution takes 14% of CO2, 47% of CH4 and 84% of N2O. Agriculture contributes to 80% of total Ethiopia’s GHGs emission: CH4, N2O and CO2, respectively, contributed to 72, 15 and 14% to aggregated emission. To soothe the impacts of climate change, countries should act now differently together to stabilize the fractions of GHGs in the atmosphere at a level that would also stabilize the climate system. Adopting climate-compatible agricultural development strategies can enable to reduce agricultural GHGs emissions or sequestration enhanced while maintaining and even increasing food supply. It is understood that combating desertification, land degradation and mitigating the effects of drought are the basis for accelerated sustainable development, poverty reduction and ensuring food security in Ethiopia. Climate-smart dryland agriculture can maintain livestock and crop productivity, reduces GHGs emission, lessens the impact of climate change and reduces the trade-offs among agricultural development to fulfill food security, climate change and ecosystem degradation.

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Greenhouse gas emission and mitigation potential from livestock production in the drylands of Northern Ethiopia

Cited by 13 publications

References 40 publications

Long-term relationships of beef and dairy cattle and greenhouse gas emissions: Application of co-integrated panel models for Latin America

Long-term relationships of beef and dairy cattle and greenhouse gas emissions: Application of co-integrated panel models for Latin America

Determinants of Farmers' Participation in the Agricultural Sector Support Project for the Adoption of Improved Technology in Traditional Poultry Farming: Evidence from Rural Togo

The Climate Change-Agriculture Nexus in Drylands of Ethiopia

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