Agroforestry, livestock, fodder production and climate change adaptation and mitigation in East Africa: issues and options

TY - UNPB

T1 - Agroforestry, livestock, fodder production and climate change adaptation and mitigation in East Africa: issues and options

AU - Dawson, Ian K

AU - Carsan, Sammy

AU - Franzel, Steve

AU - Kindt, Roland

AU - Breugel, Paulo van

AU - Graudal, Lars

AU - Lillesø, Jens-Peter Barnekow

AU - Orwa, Caleb

AU - Jamnadass, Ramni

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Agroforestry and livestock-keeping both have the potential to promote anthropogenic climate changeresilience, and understanding how they can support each other in this context is crucial. Here, we discuss relevant issues in East Africa, where recent agroforestry interventions to support livestockkeeping have included the planting of mostly-exotic tree-fodders, and where most parts of the region are expected to become drier in the next decades, although smaller areas may become wetter. Wider cultivation and improved management of fodder trees provides adaptation and mitigation opportunities in the region, but these are generally not well quantified and there are clear opportunities for increasing productivity and resilience through diversification, genetic improvement, improved farm-input delivery and better modelling of future scenarios. We relate, and illustrate with the example of current- and future-climate tree species distribution modelling, important areas for future research.

AB - Agroforestry and livestock-keeping both have the potential to promote anthropogenic climate changeresilience, and understanding how they can support each other in this context is crucial. Here, we discuss relevant issues in East Africa, where recent agroforestry interventions to support livestockkeeping have included the planting of mostly-exotic tree-fodders, and where most parts of the region are expected to become drier in the next decades, although smaller areas may become wetter. Wider cultivation and improved management of fodder trees provides adaptation and mitigation opportunities in the region, but these are generally not well quantified and there are clear opportunities for increasing productivity and resilience through diversification, genetic improvement, improved farm-input delivery and better modelling of future scenarios. We relate, and illustrate with the example of current- and future-climate tree species distribution modelling, important areas for future research.

U2 - 10.5716/wp14050.pdf

DO - 10.5716/wp14050.pdf

M3 - Working paper

SP - 1

EP - 22

BT - Agroforestry, livestock, fodder production and climate change adaptation and mitigation in East Africa: issues and options

PB - World Agroforestry Centre

CY - Nairobi, Kenya

ER -