by Jeda Palmer, CSIRO

The LiveGAPS team released a new app to compare nutrient production of livestock by farm size for Tanzania, Nigeria and Ethiopia. With this tool, you can visualise the quantity of different nutrients, for example protein, that is produced by livestock from farms of different sizes.

The data shows that small farms (<20 ha) produce the majority of protein for Tanzania, Nigeria and Ethiopia, with very small farms (<2 ha) contributing a considerable amount of protein.

Check out the nutrient production app on the LiveGAPS website.

LiveGAPS is led by the Global Food and Nutrition Security team at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The project aims to identify ways to maximise yields in livestock systems for poverty alleviation, global food security and sustainability, by estimating the gap between actual and potential productivity of livestock. This will be achieved by using new information from surveys and livestock monitoring systems to develop livestock and household simulation models

Jeda Palmer is a research technician in the CSIRO Global Food and Nutrition group, based in Brisbane, Australia.