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Rwanda Dairy Competitiveness Program II: Efficiency gains in dairy production systems decrease GHG emission intensity

Rwanda Dairy Competitiveness Program II: Efficiency gains in dairy production systems decrease GHG emission intensity

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Date of publication
november 2016
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handle:10568/77622
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? The Rwanda Dairy Competitiveness Program II

(RDCP) was estimated to have resulted in a

strong decrease in the GHG emissions intensity

of milk production, defined as the GHG

emissions per unit (liter) of milk produced.

Extensive cattle production systems reduced

their GHG emission intensity by an estimated -

4.11 tCO2e per 1000 l of milk (-60%), while

intensive production systems reduced their

intensity by an estimated -1.7 tCO2e/1000 l (-

47%). The decrease in GHG emission intensity

is evidence that RDCP made the value chain

more efficient and sustainable in climate change

mitigation terms.

? RDCP’s productivity-oriented interventions

increased livestock herd size and cow weight.

As a consequence, total annual GHG emissions

in the project area increased by an estimated

18,980 tCO2e due to increased herd size and

34,904 tCO2e due to increased cow weight,

when compared to business-as-usual practices.

This represents a 12 percent increase in GHG

emissions.

? The increase in milk output was proportionally

much larger than the associated increase in

GHG emissions. This increase in the efficiency

of dairy production systems was the basis for a

transformation to more sustainable production

patterns in intensive and extensive dairy

systems.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Grewer, Uwe
Nash, Julie
Bockel, Louis
Galford, Gillian

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