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Farming for Biodiversity

Compactadora Ganadera Multipropósito

Guayabal , Colombia
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An Overview Of Our Solution

MGM (Maquinaria Ganadera Multipropósito), is a work group of enthusiast engineers (Mecatronic Engineer, Andres Gil, Chemistry Engineer, Iván Salamanca and Agronomy Engineer, Hernán Salamanca). We work in technical development of machenery with solar energy, for the small livestock producers in the adaptation process to climatic change. With our technology, unique in the market (Compactadora Ganadera Multipropósito and Cortadora Ganadera Multipropósito). We permit the oportunity to the small producers, to use, diferent grasses conservation programs like silage, hay and multinutricional blocks, with their resources. Given the right equipment to the small livestock producer to do the silage or hay, like green suplement, we garantee the offer to the cows a green diet mixing the pasturage with grass and silvo pasturas, improving the digestion.
Who is this solution impacting?
Community Type
Rural
Rural
Additional Information
  • Population Impacted:
  • Continent: South America
General Information

Organization type

individual
Ecosystem (select all that apply)
Grasslands
Grasslands

Population impacted

11200 small livestock producer, only in our region
Challenge

Size of agricultural area

1 hectarea in corn, cane and higth grasses in to small productive areas of 8 to 10 hectareas.

Production quantity

10 to 11 Tons of material for silage or hayne

People employed

1
Solution

Describe your solution

We want to provide multiporpouse, low cost and easy to use technologies to little and medium livestockers. They dont have improve alternatives to be more efficients in their productive systems. One of our goals is the rigth distribution of farm labors and rational use of supplies and raw materials.With that the beneficiaries could dedicate more time with their families and their comunities for the improvement of their region. We hope to reduce the rural people movement to the cities looking for oportunities, we like to offer new oportunities in their farms. The improve of the productive system efficiency and raw material uses give better adaptation tools to the beneficiaries and let them to save costs and be more productive and profitable. If the producer have stored feed to hard times, they should not have dead cows.
Implementation

Describe your implementation

The implementation of the project is not difficult. Local goverment, livestockers associations and private sector establish an alliance to develop a communal experiment with environmental, productive, social an economic objectives in a Colombian poor region affected by climate change. With the information and experiences obteined with scalable activity explained in the previous item, the project could be established in any other region or country with similar climatic conditions and problems of Colombia ( ecuatorial zone countries, zones of dry and wet tropic on the planet like South and central America, Afrika, Asia, the Caribean and Pacific Ocean isles). We need access to 100 livestockers. The local goberment has the information of the location of lthe producers most affected by the climatic change, in the last 2 years. We Only need strategic alliance with national and local goberment and producers( Ministerio de Agricultura, Coorporaciones Autónomas, Alcaldias y Asociaciones Ganaderas). We put the machenery by a small cost, and donate the consulting process for the implementation to resilient productive program. The national goberment put the resourses, the local goberment is in charge of the verification and monitoring of the process. And finally, the producers put the work , the land and the cows. - Specific activities and/or specifically what your solution does to address the identified problems above in the Context Analysis section - How you ensured your solution was adopted and promoted change in human activities - Enabling conditions - Key success factors - Any obstacles and how you overcame them

External connections

We are present our machinery and productive resilent program to the national goberment in Colombia (Ministerio de Ambiente, IDEAM, Ministerio de Agricultura y a la Mesa Ganadera Nacional), local goberment ( Gobernación del Tolima). Also the officee of climatic change of the IADB in Colombia. Internationally, in Costa Rica ( MAG Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería), EARTH University. Ecuador, Latinoamérica Verde Awards.
Results

What is the environmental or ecological challenge you are targeting with your solution?

With our machinery is too easy the elaboration of silages and hay with most of grasses, corn, cane and other beneficts plants, (conserved for many months), the small producers have different options to feed animals in a rough times for the grasses (dry and rain seasons). Helping to adapt to the climatic change and reduce the enviromemts impact of small livestockers in Colombia.

Describe the context in which you are operating

The beneficiaries of our activity are the little and medium livestockers (less than 50 cows per farm) affected in their productive system by the inclement caused by longer and disordered wet and dry seassons (direct effects of climatic change). The beneficiares need friendly, cheap and efficient tools that let them to be more profiatable and less harmful with the environment. According to Fedegan's (national federation of livestockers of Colombia) census of little and medium livestocker affected by weather calamities in 2010, and 33.000 dead cows in the 2015. Our project could benefit a large percentage of the 11200 producers reported as affected.

How did you impact natural resource use and greenhouse gas emissions?

In Colombia, the small livestock producer dont have access to tools designed for their specific needs and the goverment dont care to begin educational campaigns about environmental care and the effects of climate change in countryside. During the last 3 years we have received the sugerences and doubts of different people, who let us improve our designs. We want to provide multiporpouse, low cost and easy to use technologies to little and medium livestockers. They dont have improve alternatives to be more efficients in their productive systems. One of our goals is the rigth distribution of farm labors and rational use of supplies and raw materials. With that the beneficiaries could dedicate more time with their families and their comunities for the improvement of their region. We hope to reduce the rural people movement to the cities looking for oportunities, we like to offer new oportunities in their farms. The improve of the productive system efficiency and raw material uses give better adaptation tools to the beneficiaries and let them to save costs and be more productive and profitable. If the producer have stored feed to hard times, they should not have dead cows.How did you improve biodiversity and/or positively impact the local environment? Please be specific and include methodology where relevant (1000 characters max.)

Language(s)

Spanish languages

Social/Community

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Water

With the available food, by silages and hayne, and a suitable productive program, with an intelligent grazig for tropical garsses, the livestock producer can manage better the warter for animal consum.

Food Security/Nutrition

Be adapt and resilient the livestockers can have more animal in the same areas, and increase their productive potential in milk and meat.

Economic/Sustainable Development

Little and medium livestockers will be more productive, with increased environmental efficiency ( solar energy machinery), social growth (increased competitveness against big livestockers -100 or more cows-), economic growth (cost savings and resources optimization). With all these tools the beneficiaries will improve their living standars with adaptation to climatic change.

Climate

With the the rigth tools, the producers can reduce their impact in the enviroment, will be adapt, produce food for the bad times, reducing damages in the quality of the tripical soils and grasess .

Sustainability

In the point of view of producer, with an small investment for two machines, the livestocker can have the tools for produce food in the rain and the hot season, with silages and hayne. Actually the conservative grass methods has higth cost for small farms, its necesary a tractors, implements and several machines. With food available, the producer will dont sell animals by low cost, or lose them by death. In and other hand, its possible to increase the production in the bad and good climatic seasons.

Return on investment

For the national goberment is more efective and less expensive, give suport to i initiative like ours. Than buy and distribute food for all the country, all the year. And in most cases, these is a damaged food, and dont go to the most affected people. Is better give the tools and the methods for garantee disponible food all the year. Do one investment with replication and development projection.

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Replication and Scale

How could we successfully replicate this solution elsewhere?

We propose an estrategic alliance to promote a sample with 100 producer, during 5 years, this time permit the show the results of a resilient productive program with solar machinery to adapt the small livestock production.
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