Project: Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems
| Acronym | MELS (Reference Number: 39258) |
| Duration | 01/01/2020 - 31/12/2022 |
| Project Topic | MELS will build on the Global Research Alliance DATAMAN project by collating additional data on emissions from manure management and activity /ancillary data. The data will be used to generate functional relationships between emissions and activity/ancillary variables, enabling a refinement of national inventories and better assessment of the cost-effectiveness of a range of mitigation measures. MELS will assess and recommend improvements to existing farm-scale decision support systems (DSSs) in relation to GHG emissions from livestock production systems, including grazing ruminants, by refining the calculations used to account for emissions and soil carbon sequestration. A prototype farm-scale DSS will be developed for countries lacking such a tool and implemented in at least one country. This will allow the consequences of mitigation strategies on emissions and costs to be more accurately quantified and better documented, both at the national and farm scales. |
| Network | ERA-GAS |
| Call | 2018 Joint Call |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aarhus University | Coordinator | Denmark |
| 2 | TEAGASC - Agriculture and Food Development Authority | Partner | Ireland |
| 3 | National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture | Partner | France |
| 4 | AgResearch | Partner | New Zealand |
| 5 | Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy | Partner | Germany |
| 6 | University of Zielona Gora | Partner | Poland |
| 7 | Institute of Agricultural Research | Partner | Chile |
| 8 | RSK ADAS Ltd | Partner | United Kingdom |
| 9 | French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment | Partner | France |
| 10 | University College Cork | Partner | Ireland |
| 11 | French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment | Partner | France |