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When and where are livestock climate-smart? A spatial-temporal framework for comparing the climate change and food security synergies and tradeoffs of Sub-Saharan African livestock systems

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  • Germer, Leah A.
  • van Middelaar, Corina E.
  • Oosting, Simon J.
  • Gerber, Pierre J.

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The livestock sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is under increasing pressure to define its role in jointly addressing food security and climate change. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has been widely leveraged as an approach to achieving both food security and climate change outcomes through suites of interventions that maximize synergies and reduce tradeoffs among three pillars: productivity, climate change resilience, and climate change mitigation. However, operationalization of the CSA approach in the livestock sector is hindered by a lack of clarity around what the pillars mean for livestock systems, given their fundamental attributes compared to crops and the spatial and temporal dimensions of these attributes. A conceptual framework is also lacking for assessing and comparing the potential CSA synergies and tradeoffs that different livestock systems and interventions may generate.

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  • Germer, Leah A. & van Middelaar, Corina E. & Oosting, Simon J. & Gerber, Pierre J., 2023. "When and where are livestock climate-smart? A spatial-temporal framework for comparing the climate change and food security synergies and tradeoffs of Sub-Saharan African livestock systems," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 210(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agisys:v:210:y:2023:i:c:s0308521x23001221
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103717
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