AgTech for climate-smart dairy farming

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Climate change

2019

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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 Latin America and the Caribbean (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

New capacities built for the dairy production sector in LAC and implementation of CSDF.
Establishment of a public-private network with the technical capacity to develop climate-smart dairy production.
Digital tools (a web platform, applications for mobile devices and computers), based on good practices, to manage climate-smart dairy farms.
Dairy farmers, technicians and extension workers trained in the use of technological tools for the sustainable management of dairy establishments.

Consensus on a document of good practices reached by participant countries, specifically related to: pastures and crops, hygiene in milking, animal health, environment, animal reproduction, socioeconomic management, feeding, animal welfare, and inclement weather. Development of LECHECK.APP, an application based on the consensus document that helps producers and technicians to implement good practices in dairy farms. The purpose of LECHECK.APP is to improve productivity, guarantee milk quality, mitigate GHG production and adapt to climate change in order to achieve CSDF status. Technicians have started to be trained in the use of the app in different countries.

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

This project actively contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, promoting more equitable, resilient, and sustainable regional development.

Main Donors

Project news

November 21, 2023

LECHECK update and E-Learning course event

November 2, 2023

LECHECK update and E-Learning course

May 4, 2023

Results of the LECHECK APP validation and improvement actions

Executor

Fundación ArgenINTA (ARGENINTA) - Argentina

Co-Executor

Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) - Argentina
Instituto Dominicano de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Forestales (IDIAF) - República Dominicana
Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) - Uruguay
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC-AR) - Argentina
Instituto Nacional de Innovación y Transferencia en Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) - Costa Rica
Cámara Hondureña de la Leche (CAHLE) - Honduras
Fundación para el Fomento y Promoción de la Investigación y Transferencia de Tecnología Agropecuaria (FITTACORI) - Costa Rica

Asociates

Dirección Nacional Láctea - Ministerio de Producción y Trabajo de Argentina (DNL) - Argentina
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAyG) - Argentina
Clúster Lechero Regional (Clúster Lechero Regional) - Argentina
Secretaría de Ganadería Lechería y Recursos Naturales del Ministerio de la Producción de Santa Fé (SGLyRN) - Argentina
Sociedad de Productores de Leche de Florida (Sociedad de Productores de Leche de Florida) - Uruguay
Tambero (Tambero.com) - Argentina
Asociación de Productores de Leche de Arroyo Grande I.N.C (APLAG INC) - República Dominicana
Cámara de Ganaderos Los Chiles (CGC) - Costa Rica

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Publications and Resources

Output 1. Constituted platform

Output 2. Good practice guide for climate-smart dairy farms

Product 3. Document outlining the description of the mobile and computer application developed (preliminary version), based on best practices, for managing Livestock Environmental Footprint (ELCI).

Product 4. Technical note containing the validated digital tools in family dairy farms in the participating countries on Good Practices aimed at Livestock Environmental Footprint (ELCI)

Ouput 5. Technical note containing the analysis of digital tools validated in commercial establishments of other countries not part of the platform.

Ouput 6. Technical Note Containing the Analysis of Information on the Robustness of the Tool

Participating Researchers

Project Leader

Livia María Negri Rodríguez

Argentina

Researcher

Alejandro La Manna

Uruguay

Researcher

María Verónica Aimar

Argentina

Researcher

María Gabriela Mora Mora

Costa Rica

Researcher

Joaquín Caridad del Rosario

República Dominicana

Researcher

Carmen Antonia García

Honduras

Researcher

Gustavo De Greef

Argentina

Communication

Sebastián Rojo

Argentina

Project Leader

Livia María Negri Rodríguez

Argentina

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AgTech for climate-smart dairy farming

Executive Summary

The technological solution

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Sustainable Development Goals

Main Donors

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Executor

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Publications and Resources

Participating Researchers

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