Project
LDRCT : Livestock Development and Rangeland Conservation Tools for Central Asia
Details
Project Code:
LDRCT
Start Date:
1997
End Date:
2003
CRSP Phase:
Phase 1
Budget:
Not Available
Countries:
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Participants
Lead University:
University of California - Davis
Other Partners:
EROS Data Center USGS, South Dakota State University, University of California, Davis
Department of Agronomy & Range Science, USDA-ARS Forage and Range Research
Laboratory, Utah State University
Dept. of Forest, Range and Wildlife Sciences (US); Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan,National Institute of Deserts, Flora, and Fauna (Turkmenistan); A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s o f U z b e k i s t a n,Central Asia Regional Office - ICARDA, Karakul Sheep Research Institute, Uzbek Livestock Research Institute, Uzbek Sericulture Research Institute, Uzbek Research Institute of Market Reforms
Ministry of Agriculture (Uzbekistan); Barayev Research Institute of Grain Farming, Central Asian Regional Environmental Center, Ministry of Science-Academy of Science RK, National Federation of Private Farmers of
Kazakhstan, Research Institute of Feed Production and
Pastures, Research Technological Institute of Sheep
Breeding (Kazakhstan); CIRAD Montpellier (France); International Centre for Agricultural Research
in Dry Areas (ICARDA) (Syria); New Ya'ar Research Center
Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Israel)
Principal Investigator(s):
Emilio Laca
Co-Principal Investigator(s):
None
Overview
Research from LDRCT focused on: continuous collection and analyses of CO2 flux data from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; determination of the effects of land use on carbon flux in northern Kazakhstan; continuation of intensive monitoring and modeling of agricultural enterprises; establishment of a forage laboratory in Samarkand and study of rangeland forages and livestock diets; and completion of bio-economic simulation model of range-based sheep producers for Kazakhstan. Project results and conclusions will be published in book form through the GL-CRSP 3G Project in Summer 2008.
Objectives
Coming soon
Outcomes
The GIS tool and information distributed will support and facilitate decision-making and development policies. The integrated activities in the carbon-flux module will contribute significantly to the assessment of rangelands as globally important carbon reservoirs and active sequestration agents. The animal production module will contribute to the long-term sustainable production of livestock in Central Asia. The project is producing data essential for an improved match between animal genotype and environmental resources in Central Asia. The planning and analysis tools that will be developed will assist policy makers in Central Asia to address the grave environmental problems of livestock production on Central Asian rangelands.
