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DOI	10.1016/j.agee.2019.106592
	Adaptation opportunities for smallholder dairy farmers facing resource scarcity: Integrated livestock, water and land management
	Bosire, Caroline K.1,2; Rao, Elizaphan James Oburu 1; Muchenje, Voster 2; Van Wijk, Mark 1; Ogutu, Joseph O.3; Mekonnen, Mesfin M.4; Auma, Joseph Onam 1; Lukuyu, Ben 1; Hammond, James 1
通讯作者	Bosire, Caroline K.
来源期刊	AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT
ISSN	0167-8809
EISSN	1873-2305
出版年	2019
卷号	284
英文摘要	Dairy 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.
英文关键词	Water scarcity Land use Milk Intensification scenarios Smallholder farmers
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Kenya ; South Africa ; Germany ; USA
开放获取类型	hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000500212000014
WOS关键词	FOOD ; SYSTEMS ; FOOTPRINTS ; DEMAND ; GREEN ; BLUE ; AGRICULTURE ; METHODOLOGY ; POTENTIALS ; SERVICES
WOS类目	Agriculture, Multidisciplinary ; Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Agriculture ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
EI主题词	2019-11-15
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/310893
作者单位	1.Int Livestock Res Inst, POB 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya; 2.Univ Ft Hare, Fac Sci & Agr, POB 1314, ZA-5700 Alice, South Africa; 3.Univ Hohenheim, Inst Crop Sci, Biostat Unit, D-70599 Stuttgart, Germany; 4.Univ Nebraska, Robert B Daugherty Water Food Global Inst, Lincoln, NE 68583 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bosire, Caroline K.,Rao, Elizaphan James Oburu,Muchenje, Voster,et al. Adaptation opportunities for smallholder dairy farmers facing resource scarcity: Integrated livestock, water and land management[J],2019,284.
APA	Bosire, Caroline K..,Rao, Elizaphan James Oburu.,Muchenje, Voster.,Van Wijk, Mark.,Ogutu, Joseph O..,...&Hammond, James.(2019).Adaptation opportunities for smallholder dairy farmers facing resource scarcity: Integrated livestock, water and land management.AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT,284.
MLA	Bosire, Caroline K.,et al."Adaptation opportunities for smallholder dairy farmers facing resource scarcity: Integrated livestock, water and land management".AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT 284(2019).