Code:
FTG/RF-14653-RG
Initiative:
Joint proyects
FONTAGRO Amount:
USD 139.840
Counterpart Amount:
USD 500.000
Execution time
42 Months
Total Amount:
USD 868.000
Participating countries:
Peru Peru Bolivia Bolivia Colombia Colombia Ecuador Ecuador
Funding source:
FONTAGRO Amount 16% Other agencies 26% Counterpart Amount 58%

Executive Summary

This project aimed to improve methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emission quantification techniques. Furthermore, it intended to generate strategies to help mitigate these emissions in dual-purpose livestock production systems in the Andean Region.

This project was structured with five components.

  • The first consisted of biophysical and socioeconomic characterization of dairy production sites.
  • In the second, CH4 and N2O emissions were evaluated in production systems (traditional and improved).
  • The third evaluated feeding strategies to enhance milk production systems and to reduce their emissions.
  • Followed by the development of gas mitigation scenarios for pilot sites.
  • Finally, improvements in research capacities in CH4 and N2O and contribution to public policies.

Results

Livestock feeding improvements such as non-structural carbohydrate reductions and/or higher dietary protein resulted in greater milk yield per day and reduced CH4 emissions per liter of milk. 

Improved systems had greater milk yield per lactation (2,369 vs. 1,990 kg/lactation) and lower cost of production (0.29 vs. 0.21 $/kg) compared to the traditional ones. Furthermore, CH4 emissions per liter of milk were lower in improved systems than in traditional systems (29 vs. 44 g CH4/kg of milk). Hence, feed with lower structural carbohydrates and greater crude protein contents helped to reduce enteric fermentation and enhance milk production.

Beneficiaries

  • 1 new facility for methane quantification (Corpoica, Colombia)
  • 1 new facility for quantification of methane and nitrous oxide (UNALM, Peru)
  • 51 professionals trained 
  • 6 graduate level theses

Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty Zero Hunger Good health and well-being Sustainable cities and communities Responsible consumption and production Climate action

Main donors

Participating Organizations

Executor
  • Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) - Perú
Co-executor
  • Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM) - Perú
  • Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (CORPOICA) - Colombia
  • Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agropecuaria y Forestal (INIAF) - Bolivia
  • Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP) - Ecuador

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Financing by country (in USD)
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Researchers

Project leader Peru

Carlos Gomez Bravo

Researcher

Maria Febres

Researcher

José Campero

Researcher

Cesar Osorio

Sponsors
BID
IICA
With the support of
Fondo Coreano de Alianza para el Conocimiento en Tecnología e Innovación (KPK)