Project: Grass To Gas: Strategies to mitigate GHG emissions from pasturebased sheep systems
| Acronym | GrassToGas (Reference Number: 39413) |
| Duration | 01/10/2019 - 30/09/2022 |
| Project Topic | More than 30% of the Earth’s total land mass is used for grazing livestock production, mainly by ruminant animals. The evolutionary adaptation of the ruminant’s ability to convert pasture to animal products such as meat, milk, and fibre may have been successfully harnessed, but ruminant production has an unwanted byproduct of an important greenhouse gas (GHG), methane. The aim of the project is to combine international scientific and industry expertise to generate new knowledge and applied solutions for the mitigation of GHG emissions in sheep. GrassToGas will identify individual animal, feed and environmental attributes associated with feed and water intake efficiency for pasture-based sheep production systems. The potential impact would be relevant for the mitigation of GHG emissions within 5 - 10 years and beyond, by the application of the results from this project into sheep breeding programmes designed to produce cumulative reductions of GHG emissions of around 1-3% p.a. |
| Network | ERA-GAS |
| Call | 2018 Joint Call |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scotland's Rural College | Coordinator | United Kingdom |
| 2 | French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment | Partner | France |
| 3 | National Agriculture Research Institue | Partner | Uruguay |
| 4 | Norwegian University of Life Sciences | Partner | Norway |
| 5 | TEAGASC - Agriculture and Food Development Authority | Partner | Ireland |
| 6 | AgResearch | Partner | New Zealand |
| 7 | International Center for Livestock Research and Training | Partner | Türkiye |
| 8 | Sheep Ireland CLG | Partner | Ireland |