Better understand the sources and drivers controlling GHG emissions from livestock systems.
Have a holistic view of available tools to support informed decision making.
Acquire a critical perspective on mitigation and adaptation strategies and their socioeconomic assessment.
Gain hands-on experience working on real case studies in Mediterranean conditions.
Connect and network with professionals from other countries involved in the management of the environmental consequences of livestock farming in a context of climate change.
Livestock GHG National Inventories: basic calculation of Tier I emissions based on a country case
A simple field scale model for grassland systems: NCYCLE
Global to subnational scale and LCA approach: FAO Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model interactive (GLEAM-i)
The course is targeted to professionals with a university degree, and is specially oriented towards public and private planners and decision makers, technical advisors, livestock producers, environmentalists and R&D professionals involved in the management of the environmental consequences of livestock farming in a context of climate change.
The course will be held at IAMZ-CIHEAM in Zaragoza from 11 to 15 February 2019.
Application deadlines:
30 November 2018 - if you need a visa or intend to apply for a grant to attend the course.
14 January 2019 - for candidates not requiring a visa and not applying for a grant.
Registration fees for the course amount to 500 euro. This sum covers tuition fees only.
Candidates from Mediterranean CIHEAM member countries, from FAO member countries, from institutions of GRA member countries from Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, and from ICARDA Middle East and North Africa partners may apply for scholarships covering registration fees and for scholarships covering the cost of travel and full board accommodation.
Candidates from other countries who require financial support should apply directly to other national or international institutions.
It is compulsory for participants to have medical insurance valid for Spain. Proof of insurance cover must be given at the beginning of the course. Those who so wish may participate in a collective insurance policy taken out by the Organisation, upon payment of the stipulated sum.
Anne Mottet is a livestock development officer in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). She holds an MSc in agronomy and a PhD in Agro-ecosystems and has 15 years of experience in supporting policy makers and stakeholders through research, studies and strategic consulting on topics related to livestock, natural resources, climate change and animal products markets.
Dave specialises in environmental and techno-economic assessment of food, bioproduct and waste management systems, and has 15 years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's Environmental Protection Agency, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Bangor University and NUI Galway. He lectures on the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) MSc program at NUI Galway, and leads rapidly expanding research group in Bangor University evaluating novel value chains for plant-protein foods & animal feeds, dairy products, wood, miscanthus, anaerobic digestion and beers and spirits. Dave is increasingly interested in tropical systems, and is currently involved in projects evaluating sustainable intensification strategies for tropical beef and dairy systems in Colombia and Costa Rica. He is member of the UN task force developing life cycle impact indicators for water and air pollution.
Sylvain Pellerin is senior scientist at INRA, Bordeaux, France. His on-going research is on CNP cycles at large spatial scale and mitigation of climate change. Between 2010 and 2018, he has coordinated research on N-P cycles and C sequestration in agricultural soils at a national level. He has published more than 80 scientific papers on biogeochemical cycles in agricultural systems.
Dominic Moran is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Edinburgh Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian (UK). He is an economist and is interested in the design of agri environmental policy and the efficient provision of ecosystems services as public goods. This includes the economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation in food systems. Previous research has considered mitigation planning (using marginal abatement cost curves) in the UK, France, Brazil and Vietnam.
Agustin currently leads a modelling team in the Basque Centre For Climate Change (BC3). His main area of expertise is the development/programming of mathematical simulations models to assess sustainability from agriculture (livestock in particular) at different scales. His best example has been the farm model SIMSDAIRY, which integrates multiple aspects of cattle farming into a systems approach (e.g. environment, economics, soil quality, animal welfare, biodiversity and product quality) capturing the key factors and key processes, and their interactions, that affect farm sustainability. Additionally, he is also an IPCC Lead Author for the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories in the soil and livestock sections. He is responsible for promoting and initiating the Spanish sci. network REMEDIA on climate change mitigation from agriculture, livestock and forestry sectors.
Fernando Estellés holds a PhD in Agricultural Engineering and an MSc in Animal Science from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, Spain). Fernando is Associate Professor at UPV and has been working as a researcher in Livestock & Environment since 2006. He is member of the Remedia Network on mitigation of greenhouse gases from agroforestry in Spain and is Spain's representative in the Integrative Research Group (IRG) of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA).
Dr. Katja Klumpp is an agro-ecophysiologist and works as a research scientist at INRA, Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit, in Clermont Ferrand, France.
She is involved in GHG measurements and climate change studies, with expertise in C and N cycling of plant-soil-atmosphere. Her research and expertise
also comprises eddy-covariance flux measurements, and processed based modeling (i.e. PaSim). She is head researcher of a permanent grassland site involved in
the long term National Environmental Research Observatory System (SOERE) and the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) in the Massif Central, France.
For more than 10 years she has been actively involved in national and European research projects on adaptation of grassland vegetation and ecosystems to management and climatic changes.
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