The Livestock and Manure Management

This component focuses on mitigation opportunities in five regions. It does this by studying local conditions and partnering with local and regional agricultural producers and experts, in order to facilitate knowledge sharing and provide necessary expertise, information and access to resources.  The five areas of work include potential reduction of methane emissions from mixed dairy farming systems, beef production, small ruminant sector, commercial pig production, and improved mixed dairy systems.

The initiative established a Central Hub and three Regional Centers - in Africa, Latin America and Asia - where opportunities to promote integrated manure management will be developed with local farmers, national authorities, and other key stakeholders. An on-line knowledge hub - Manure Management Kiosk – was established to provide remote access on best practices about manure management.

Paddy Rice Production

The Paddy Rice Production component is working to reduce methane emissions by promoting alternate wetting and drying (AWD) practices on a large scale. This should also facilitate a more stable food supply and reduced water use and production cost.

The main activities include identifying priority areas where AWD can be implemented and pinpointing incentives, technical support mechanisms and enabling conditions to overcome barriers to new practices. A global information platform will be set up to offer a database for country-and region-specific information and best practices related to AWD.

Open Agricultural Burning 

This component seeks to develop replicable and scalable open burning mitigation options in the Eastern Himalayas and Andes regions which are particularly sensitive to emissions of black carbon. In order to catalyze reductions in the estimated 40% of black carbon emissions globally arising from this source, and for which a 50% global reduction could result in 190,000 avoided deaths annually on the global scale.

Enteric fermentation

The Enteric Methane Component aims to transform ruminant livestock production systems in order to reduce emissions of enteric methane per unit of product, and increase efficiency.

The main activities include improving efficiency by testing and demonstrating prioritized technology and policy actions at high methane emission sites in South Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and South America where mitigation potential is feasible. The success of these actions will be evaluated against social, economic and environmental goals.