The livestock sector in Colombia: Toward a program to facilitate large-scale adoption of mitigation and adaptation practices

Jeimar Tapasco, Jean-François Le Coq (), Alejandro Ruden, Juan Sebastián Rivas and Javier Ortiz
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Jeimar Tapasco: CIAT - International Center for Tropical Agriculture [Colombie] - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]
Jean-François Le Coq: UMR ART-Dev - Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Alejandro Ruden: CIAT - International Center for Tropical Agriculture [Colombie] - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]
Juan Sebastián Rivas: CIAT - International Center for Tropical Agriculture [Colombie] - CGIAR - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR]
Javier Ortiz: Global Green Growth Institute

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Abstract: Livestock raising is an important sector of the Colombian economy, which will face serious challenges in the next decade, including adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. Colombia must change the model of livestock production in a very short time by freeing up areas of pasture for other uses and focusing intensified livestock production in suitable zones. Despite the urgency and the magnitude of the required changes, only isolated small-scale initiatives exist. Colombia therefore has the challenge to scale-up these initiatives1, but at present it has no program designed to achieve this objective. We started by analyzing the policies, actors, and existing initiatives in Colombia. We then sought to understand the potential for and the limitations to scaling-up promising initiatives to face the challenges of climate change in the livestock sector. We identified the key elements from previous initiatives and classified them into the conceptual spaces identified in the theory of scaling-up. These are the spaces in matters of: policy, fiscal and financial matters, institutional capacity, learning, partnerships, and technical matters, emphasizing the importance of the technical dimension. Finally, we propose some elements for the design of Colombia's national program of livestock raising.

Keywords: Colombie; élevage; développement économique; adaptation aux changements climatiques; pâturages; utilisation des terres; système d'élevage; Livestock; Colombia; Climatic Change; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019, 3, pp.61. ⟨10.3389/fsufs.2019.00061⟩

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DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2019.00061

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