Tag Archives: Brachiaria humidicola

Animal Feeding / Capacity Development / Capacity Strengthening / Central America / CIAT / Feeds / Livestock / Nicaragua

Experimenting with forage hybrids to improve mixed crop-livestock systems in Nicaragua

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As part of the BMZ financed project ‘climate-smart crop-livestock systems for smallholders in the tropics: Integration of new forage hybrids to intensify agriculture and to mitigate climate change through regulation of nitrification in soil’, the Livestock and Fish program team has been working alongside farmers in rural communities of Nicaragua to improve productivity and mitigate … Continue reading →

Animal Feeding / CGIAR / CIAT / Climate Change / Feeds / Forages / LIVESTOCK-FISH

‘Grassroots action’ in livestock feeding to help curb global climate change

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In a series of papers, scientists in the Livestock and Fish research program offer new evidence that a potent chemical mechanism operating in the roots of a tropical grass used for livestock feed has enormous potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Referred to as “biological nitrification inhibition” or BNI, the mechanism markedly reduces the conversion … Continue reading →

Animal Feeding / CCAFS / Central America / CIAT / Crop-Livestock / Forages / Latin America / LIVESTOCK-FISH / Nicaragua / Project / Research / South America

Climate-smart crop-livestock systems for smallholders – Livestock and Fish project to intensify agriculture and mitigate climate change

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The German Government recently approved a new project part of the ‘Livestock and Fish’ research program of the CGIAR. Led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the three-year project aims to improve the agricultural productivity and mitigation of climate change through more efficient nutrient use and reduced greenhouse gas emissions from smallholder crop-livestock … Continue reading →