MAPA Project: resilient agro-climatic adaptation models for livestock production systems in Boyacá, Colombia Poster presented at the 3rd Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Montpellier. Read more: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/3rd-global-science-conference-%E2%80%9Cclimate-smart-agriculture-2015%E2%80%9D#.VRurLUesXX4

1. MAPA Project: resilient agro-climatic adaptation models for livestock production
systems in Boyacá, Colombia
López-Cepeda Michael, Bolaños-Benavides Martha, García-Gómez Gustavo
CORPOICA (Colombian Corporation of Agricultural Research), Tibaitatá Investigation Center, Mosquera; Colombia. e-mail: mlopezce@corpoica.org.co.
The severe social, economic and environmental impacts caused by the rainy
season of 2010-2011 showed that the livestock sector is highly vulnerable to
extreme weather events (floods, droughts, landslides, etc.). Trends indicate that
by 2050 the temperature in some regions of Colombia will increase by between 2
and 4 degrees and parts of the Pacific and Andean regions will be exposed to
long periods of flooding, while the Colombian Caribbean region will suffer
prolonged dry periods. For this reason CORPOICA, with the MAPA Project,
(Modelos de Adaptación y Prevención Agroclimatica – Agro-climatic Adaptation
and Prevention Models) is validating climate-smart technologies that
economically reactivate livestock production systems and strengthen local
capacities to mitigate and adapt to the effects of extreme weather events.
Boyacá is one of 18 Colombian departments that have benefited.
The authors would like to thank “FONDO DE ADAPTACIÓN” for funding this project.
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INTRODUCTION
METHODOLOGY
MAPA PROJECT IN BOYACÁ (COLOMBIA)
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THE FUTURE OF MAPA IN BOYACÁ
Figura 1. Organisational structure of the
MAPA project
MAPA Project in the Colombian Livestock Sector
Component 1
Component 2
Product 1
Identify on a regional
scale zones susceptible
to the extreme weather
events (floods, droughts,
frosts, landslides, etc).
Product 2
Identify the indicators of
vulnerability of the livestock
production systems for each
scenario of climate variability.
Product 3
Support decisión-making in
the livestock sector through
early agro-climatic warning
systems.
Product 5
Seek the suitable and potential
technologies, which are available
to the livestock sector, with the aim
of dealing with extreme weather
events and generating economic
reactivation
Product 6
Select and validate technologies,
which can improve the resilience
of the livestock production
systems prioritised in each
Colombian región.
Product 4
Empower livestock technical assistants
with the capacity to evaluate agro-
climatic risks at a local level and able to
use early agro-climatic warning
systems.
Product 7
Train livestock technicians to transfer
the technologies and make
recommendations on the mehod of
managing livestock production systems.
SORA TIBASOSA
Dual-purpose Cattle SystemSheep and Goat System
ANIMAL CRITERIA
CLIMATIC VARIABLES
SELECTED TECHNOLOGIES
Oat Silage
Multinutritional
blocks
Targeted Selective
Treatment
- Weight gain
- FAMACHA test
- EPG (Eggs Per Gram)
- DAG Score
- Hematocrit
- Weight gain
- Milk production
- Milk quality
- Body Condition Score
- EPG (Eggs Per Gram)
Semi-automatic weather station Manual weather station
- Analysis of 32-year
climate series (monthly)
- Humidity
- Relative pressure
- Rainfall
- Temperature/wind chill
- Wind speed
- Rainfall
- Temperature (Max/Min)
Plastic Rain gauge
Wind vane and
anenometerHumidity and
temperature sensors
Rain gauge
Data logger
Slimline
Thermometer
• Mitigate the effects of extreme weather events in these livestock production
systems by making possible efficient means of nutritional suplementation.
• Optimise the use of anthelmintics in these systems through an effective
diagnostic of the parasite burden per animal.
• Foster the knowledge and implementation of climatic data in the different
activities, which are developed in each of these livestock production systems.