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Development of cost of production for alternative production systems and management practices in agriculture
Project
Project code: TI-BW-08-PID1733, GCP/GL0/500/GER
Contract period: 01.12.2015
- 31.12.2017
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Crop and cattle production contribute to the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. What are the economic impacts of GHG-mitigation in agricultural farms? Agriculture has been identified as a contributor to global GHG emissions. In crop production nitrous oxides from fertilizer applications as well as methane emissions from wet rice production are most relevant, whereas in livestock production methane emissions from enteric fermentation of ruminants are in the focus. Production systems with relatively low productivity, as they are often found in developing and emerging countries, appear to have a particular high potential to reduce GHG emissions. Studies on mitigation of GHG often focus on technical aspects but ignore the economic implications of such interventions. As a consequence, this project will evaluate GHG-mitigation strategies in selected countries in Asia, South America, Africa from a production system and an economic perspective. The following working steps are planned: 1. Specification of the reference situation (Baseline), quantification of the production systems, their performance, productivity, economics and GHG-emissions 2. Alignment and validation of the results with FAO-calculations 3. Identification and specification of mitigation strategies jointly with the local research partners, advisors and producers, calculation of performance, productivity, economics and GHG-emissions 4. Comparison of the baseline with the mitigation scenarios 5. Reporting The following countries and products are investigated: Crop: Viet Nam (rice), Indonesia (palm oil), China (corn) Cattle: China (finishing), Kenya (dairy), Morocco (finishing) Colombia (finishing and dairy) The project will use the methods and the data bases of the agri benchmark Cash Crop Network as well as the agri benchmark Beef and Sheep Network. The specification of data sets takes place with the local agri benchmark research partners. Data are processed with the farm-level models TIPI-CAL and TYPI-CROP. Within the scope of the project, existing GHG-calculation modules are adjusted and their coverage improved.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Animal Husbandry
- Agroeconomics
- Climate Change
