Supporting better crop-livestock integration on small-scale West African farms: a simulation-based approach

Sempore, Aristide W.; Andrieu, Nadine; Gal, P.-Y. Le; Nacro, Hassan B.; Sédogo, Michel Papaoba

doi:10.1080/21683565.2015.1089966

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“…We considered the partial supply of water (from rainfall and the water harvesting technologies tested) and nutrient (from mineral and organic fertilizers) for the different crops of the farm. Such indicators are used to detect imbalances between supply and demand in farm production; factors that can lead to a depletion in environmental resources (Sempore et al 2016, Van den Bosch et al 1998. For nutrient self-sufficiency, we considered only nitrogen supply and demand given that nitrogen was the main macronutrient found in mineral fertilizers applied by farmers in coffee and sugarcane cropping systems (Arcila et al 2007).…”

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Can an innovation platform support a local process of climate-smart agriculture implementation? A case study in Cauca, Colombia

Osorio-Garcia

Paz

Howland

et al. 2019

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Can an innovation platform support a local process of climate-smart agriculture implementation? A case study in Cauca, Colombia The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) believes that open access contributes to its mission of reducing hunger and poverty, and improving human nutrition in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture. CIAT is committed to creating and sharing knowledge and information openly and globally. We do this through collaborative research as well as through the open sharing of our data, tools, and publications.

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Can an innovation platform support a local process of climate-smart agriculture implementation? A case study in Cauca, Colombia

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Howland

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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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“…The livestock component acts as alternative security, savings and investment options in smallholder farming systems (Kurosaki, 1997). Crop–livestock integration has the potential to improve sustainable intensification of crop and livestock productivity (Sempore et al ., 2016). Crop–livestock integration involves intensifying the interaction between crops and livestock in a single farming unit in order to improve the combined productivity of the individual components of the system and minimize use of external inputs (Mohammed-Saleem, 1995; Williams et al ., 1999).…”

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“…It also minimizes crop production costs through use of manure and draught power. Use of crop residues improves livestock condition during drier seasons (Sempore et al ., 2016). Smallholder farmers have always practised some form of mixed farming and the systems have been poorly integrated.…”

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“…They also potentially lead to conflicts, competition for resources and land degradation if poorly managed (Van Keulen and Schiere, 2004). Large-scale commercial farmers do not use mixed farming systems due to the longer ‘gestation period’ of the benefits and due to specialization (Sempore et al ., 2016).…”

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“…(2016) similarly suggest that integration involves the transfer of products between crop and livestock within the same land area. This involves, for example, draught power for cultivation, fodder from crop residues and fodder crops and organic manure from livestock waste and crop residues (Sempore et al ., 2016). According to Parsons et al .…”

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Crop–livestock integration in smallholder farming systems of Goromonzi and Murehwa, Zimbabwe

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Poor productivity in smallholder farming systems has necessitated research on the potential of crop–livestock integration to sustainably improve productivity. The study hypothesized that improvement in individual agronomic and livestock systems and synergistic utilization of by-products of either system increases productivity, profitability and integration. Smallholder farming households were classified into: old and resource endowed (OR); part time (PT); and young, risk-taking and enthusiastic (YRE) following a survey conducted in Murehwa and Goromonzi districts of Zimbabwe. Crop–livestock systems’ integration scenarios were developed for each farmer category. Expression of crop–livestock integration in physical terms, e.g., kg ha−1, can be complex and confounding, hence the expression of integration in monetary values. Baseline scenario results indicate that OR had the highest crop–livestock integration of $3981 compared with PT and YRE despite OR having the lowest manure usage compared with PT and YRE farmers. Moreover, OR had the least legume yields of <800 compared with 3530 kg ha−1 in YRE farmers. Subsequent crop–livestock integration scenarios increased maize grain yields by at least 50%, thus increasing profitability to $1210, $3230 and $3100 yr−1 for mucuna, cowpea and groundnut, respectively. Total income increased by 135, 132 and 101% translating to $9880, $2960 and $6290 yr−1 in OR, PT and YRE farmers, respectively. Crop–livestock integration therefore has the potential to improve smallholder crop and livestock productivity, variable with socio-economic status.

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Supporting better crop-livestock integration on small-scale West African farms: a simulation-based approach

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

Can an innovation platform support a local process of climate-smart agriculture implementation? A case study in Cauca, Colombia

Can an innovation platform support a local process of climate-smart agriculture implementation? A case study in Cauca, Colombia

Crop–livestock integration in smallholder farming systems of Goromonzi and Murehwa, Zimbabwe

Managing biomass in semi-arid Burkina Faso: Strategies and levers for better crop and livestock production in contrasted farm systems

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