Developing climate-smart livestock systems in Inner Mongolia, China
2017
Koslowski, Frank | Wilkes, Andreas | Moran, Dominic
‘Climate-smart’ is the term coined to define agricultural systems that are resilient to climatechange, and offer efficient emissions mitigation potential without compromising onproductivity, food security and livelihoods. As part of the implementation of such systems,this study developed a Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) for greenhouse gas emissionmitigation for a grassland system in Inner Mongolia, China. We identified two baselineemission scenarios and three abatement measures, namely, shorter lambing time,prohibited grazing, and reduced stocking rates. The study region showed a high and costefficientabatement potential of 62.5 and 32 Kilotonnes (Kt) of CO2eq for each baseline,respectively and each Abatement measure lead to cost savings for the herders. Reducedstocking rates provided the largest mitigation potential. Sensitivity analysis showed howincreasing input and livestock product prices have consequences for measure adoption.
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