Unravelling The Contributions Of The Nigerian Livestock And Other More Prominent Sectors In Mitigation Of Global Green House Gas (GHG)
Authors: Ohagenyi Ifemma 
Published: June 2022

The Study was aimed at evaluating the contribution of the Nigerian’s livestock to global GHG emission and proffer efficient ways to mitigate emission from its livestock sector, while seeking for alternate options suggested by FAO. The report of US and EU research on GHG mitigation provided information and best practices for this study. The US research implicated livestock as one of the major human activities that was responsible for 24% contribution to global warming. Another report by FAO reported that the emission intensities of livestock sector to global warming ranges from beef, sheep, goat, dairy, pig, egg chicken and meat chicken.

Although the global livestock emission was high, the proportion of the Nigerian livestock population as a component of the global livestock and its genetic composition indicates that Nigeria’s livestock has an insignificant contribution to the global livestock population. Consequently, its GHG emission is equally infinitesimal with respect to the global GHG emission. The small population size of Nigerian cattle, sheep, goat and swine represents 0.93%, 1.9%, 3.2% and 2% GHG emission of the world cattle, sheep, goat and swine.

The study uncovered alternate sources of emission like high loads of burning oil and gas produced by bad roads and bad vehicles, plastic waste (crude oil waste), deforestation and fertilizers as factors that play key role in GHG emission in Nigeria. Moreso, the Study considered some FAO climate change adaptation solutions particularly, Institutional changes (International collaborations); Shift from the usuals; Planting of trees; Increased mobility of resources (saw-mill, paper production, plastic waste recycling); On-farm and off-farm diversification (automobile, road construction); as well as Reconversion (fruit juice production, Wine press, vegetable oil companies). 

The study showed that the Nigerian Livestock climate change mitigation project will require a total expenditure of three trillion, one hundred and thirty million, nine hundred thousand naira (#3,130,900,000.00) only. At the end of the third production cycle (3years) a total of eighty-one trillion, four hundred and sixty million naira (#81,460,000,000.00) will be raised from the project.

A net profit of seventy-four trillion, five hundred and seventy-eight million, one hundred thousand naira is expected at the end of 3 years.

The livestock mitigation project promises stupendous profit. The high profit from this project can fund Nigerian’s Annual budget for than 10 years.

The cost and profit analysis of the Nigerian Livestock global warming mitigation plan revealed that the Livestock and its Alternate project is indeed a splendid project that qualifies for a milch cow.

It represents efficient project that will ensure exponential growth of the economy,

- Expedite the diversification of Nigerian economy.

- Raise Nigerian Manufacturing index.

- Capable of eliminating poverty and hunger.

- Expedite Nigeria’s move to Meet Sustainable development goals (SDGs) 

- Raising Nigeria’s per capita income and consumption.

- Wiping out Nigeria’s indebtedness of 33.1 trillion naira to World Bank.

- Building Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings, expand Nigeria present export value of 4% as it reduces Nigeria import value from 96% of all its trade.

- Increase Nigerias contrbuton to Africa’s trade from the present value of 4% 

- Change Nigeria from the list of under developed to a civilized nation.

- Generation of jobs for a great proportion of its working age.