beef production, and as a result improve livelihoods and Climate change is a global phenomenon with severe negative impacts on poor people in developing countries (Morton 2007). Across many parts of Africa, rural poor communities rely for their survival on agriculture and livestock, which are amongst the most climate-sensitive economic sectors. Climate-smart agriculture helps farm-ers to increase food production, become more resilient to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emis-sions. The main anthropogenic GHGs are carbon dioxide (CO