Maziwa Zaidi (More Milk) in Tanzania: Best-bet
Technologies and Innovations
Greening Dairy Value Chains: Realizing Environmental and
Social Benefits of Intensification
Todd Crane, Renee Bullock, Esther Kihoro, Joel Onyango
Key messages and solutions
• Dairy intensification practices and productivity
improvements overlap substantially with lowering GHG
emission intensity
• Proper incentives and institutional innovations can
improve both uptake of intensification practices and
social inclusivity of value chains.
• Win-win-win outcomes are possible!
Opportunities and benefits
• Adoption of inclusive low-emission development will
simultaneously help achieve a wide variety of benefits
• Dairy productivity
• Inclusive rural development
• Reducing environmental impacts of dairy
• National commitments to reducing GHG emissions
intensity
Suitability
• Achieving inclusive, low-emission development requires
commitment by private sector and policy makers
• Technologies, institutions and networks need to be addressed
in an integrated fashion
Evidence
• Research findings from Tanzania and Kenya are being
used to develop a decision support tool for inclusive low-
emission development
• We have used research findings to engage with local and
national stakeholder platforms in Tanzania and Kenya,
with positive feedback
• Tradeoffs and hard choices are inevitable when
sustainability and inclusivity are taken seriously
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Problem statement
• There is increasing international and national attention
on reducing the environmental footprint of dairy
production, especially in the form of GHG emissions
• Intensification generally reduces GHG emission
intensities, but often leads to uneven benefits for
producers
• How can dairy development simultaneously improve
productivity, profitability, inclusivity and environmental
footprint?
Maziwa Zaidi thanks all donors and organizations which globally support the work of ILRI and its partners through their contributions to the CGIAR system
Resource requirements Low High
Land
Water
Labour
Cash
Access to inputs
Knowledge and skills
Impact areas Low High
Food security
Nutrition and food safety
Youth empowerment
Women empowerment
Livelihoods
Market access and linkages
Outcome difficulty Low High
Business profitability
Environmental sustainability
Youth empowerment
Women empowerment