Objective
ANIMALCHANGE will provide scientific guidance on the integration of adaptation and mitigation objectives and design sustainable development pathways for livestock production in Europe, in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. ANIMALCHANGE will inform public policy development in EU27 and propose cooperation programs addressing smallholder livestock farming in selected developing countries. The core analytical spine of the project is a series of coupled biophysical and socio-economic models combined with experimentation. This allows exploring future scenarios for the livestock sector under baseline and atmospheric CO2 stabilization scenarios. These scenarios are first constructed in Component (CP) 1. They are elaborated and enriched by breakthrough mitigation and adaptation options from CP 2 at field and animal scales, integrated and evaluated at farm scale in CP 3 and used to assess policy options and their socio-economic consequences in CP 4.
ANIMALCHANGE will:
- Quantify and reduce uncertainties in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and assess climate change impacts on livestock systems (including grasslands)
- Revise estimates of the GHG balance of livestock systems and integrate soil carbon sequestration
- Integrate climate variability and extremes into the assessment of impacts, adaptation and vulnerability of livestock systems to climate change
- Develop breakthrough technologies for adaptation and mitigation to climate change for both ruminants and monogastrics
- Study and quantify trade-offs and synergies between adaptation and mitigation options
- Assess the potential societal and sectoral costs and benefits of these options for the livestock sector in Europe and in study regions of Africa and Latin America
- Assess climate change vulnerability of animal production and of associated GHG emissions
- Provide direct support through the design of an integrated and consistent mitigation and adaptation policy framework for the livestock sector
Field of science
- /social sciences/political science/political policy/public policy
- /social sciences/other social sciences/social sciences interdisciplinary/sustainable development
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/atmospheric sciences/climatology/climatic changes
- /agricultural sciences/animal and dairy science
Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2010-4
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP-SICA - Large-scale integrating project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries(SICA)Coordinator
75007 Paris Cedex 07
France
Participants (24)
8000 Aarhus C
R93 Carlow
28040 Madrid
SY23 3BF Aberystwyth
6708 PB Wageningen
2100 Godollo
75016 Paris
3003 Bern
EH9 3JG Edinburgh
75015 Paris 15
2361 Laxenburg
75015 Paris
3008PA Rotterdam
7450-250 Vaiamonte
90046900 Porto Alegre
70770901 Brasilia
Participation ended
2080 Ariana
3120 Dakar
0002 Pretoria
00100 Nairobi
3240 Hamilton
00161 Roma
00153 Roma
1049 Brussels