Agtech for Climate-Smart Dairy

Executive Summary

There is currently an increase in global demand for animal protein that is estimated to grow 70% by 2050. This is an opportunity for milk-producing countries in LAC to supply domestic and foreign markets with dairy products. However, an increase in livestock production may have a significant environmental impact due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In addition, climate change (cycles, rainfall patterns and intensive temperature) threatens production and increases the vulnerability of dairy production systems. To reduce these effects, these systems need better indicators of efficiency and productivity to enable a sustainable intensification of resource use, such as water, soil, and climate. This project seeks to develop digital tools to improve real-time information capture about production systems to enable a transition to climate-smart dairy farms. The project is funded by the New Zealand Government as part of its contribution to the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA).

The technological solution

The project will develop digital tools (a web platform, and applications for mobile devices and computers) to monitor productive, climate and management aspects of dairy farms in real-time to lead to climate-smart dairy farms (CSDF) in the region.

Results

Beneficiaries

• 3,000 milk producers
• 20 organizations (coops, associations, clusters, and SMEs).
• 200 professionals and technicians from the dairy sector.
• 300 students from agricultural high schools and university programs about milk production.
• 10 milk processing companies and 25 municipal residents from Argentina, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Honduras, trained in the use of Agtech tools for milk production. 

Sustainable Development Goals

Main donors

Dissemination products