BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Global Research Alliance - ECPv5.16.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Global Research Alliance X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Global Research Alliance BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Auckland BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1300 TZOFFSETTO:+1200 TZNAME:NZST DTSTART:20260404T140000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1200 TZOFFSETTO:+1300 TZNAME:NZDT DTSTART:20260926T140000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTSTAMP:20260607T160742 CREATED:20170427T054134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231126T211546Z UID:6066-1780848462-1780848462@globalresearchalliance.org SUMMARY:Feed & Nutrition Network DESCRIPTION:The Feed and Nutrition Network (FNN) is an international network focused on ruminant feed and nutrition issues in relation to greenhouse gases. \nFeed\, feed additives\, and nutrition directly affect an animal’s productivity and health status and can strongly influence absolute or per unit of product GHG emissions. Research on feed and nutritional approaches to reducing enteric methane emissions is growing internationally. \nThe Feed and Nutrition Network is an important part of this effort\, providing a collaborative forum for scientists to: \n\nSummarise and evaluate the available data on mitigating GHG emissions of ruminants by nutritional means (current focus: methane)\nDevelop sound recommendations on methane mitigation by nutritional means for stakeholders\nIdentify gaps in knowledge and focus research on priority issues.\n\nActivities: \nThe FNN is currently developing models to predict CH4 production in sheep based on over 2000 individual animal records from 10 countries (Australia\, Brazil\, Canada\, Egypt\, France\, Norway\, New Zealand\, Spain\, Switzerland\, and the UK). The database covers a wide range of feeding and production systems. The group of contributors are discussing the results and expect to publish before summer. \nAchievements by Network members include: \n\nTwo major review papers published in Animal Feed Science & Technology on in vitro and in vivo techniques for assessing nutritional strategies to reduce methane emissions\nA symposium review published in the Journal of Dairy Science ‘Uncertainties in enteric methane inventories\, measurement techniques and prediction models‘\nGLOBAL NETWORK Project: A 4-year collaborative project to advance research into nutritional means to mitigate methane emissions and nitrogen losses from ruminants. FNN scientists have published three new papers associated with the project. This includes the development of two enteric methane mitigation databases:\n\nMitigation database: the main goal is to summarise and recommend science-based enteric methane mitigation options to stakeholders\nPrediction database: consists of individual animal data and aims to support the development of robust enteric methane emission prediction models for various ruminant species and nutritional\, animal and farm management scenarios.\n\n\n\nContact: \nFor more information on the Feed and Nutrition Network\, please contact Coordinator: David R. Yañez-Ruiz (david.yanez@eez.csic.es). URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org/research/livestock/networks/feed-nutrition-network/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://globalresearchalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Livestock-2-detail-2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTSTAMP:20260607T160742 CREATED:20170427T053552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201016T034357Z UID:6064-1780848462-1780848462@globalresearchalliance.org SUMMARY:Animal Selection\, Genetics & Genomics Network DESCRIPTION:The Animal Selection\, Genetics & Genomics Network is a forum for scientists exploring the impact of genetic technologies for managing livestock greenhouse gas emissions. \nUsing genetics to mitigate methane emissions from ruminant livestock requires a significant resource of different breeds and species\, and access to unique scientific skills. The Animal Selection\, Genetics and Genomics Network (ASGGN) of the Livestock Research Group offers an environment for scientists from around the world to share information and data. Follow the network on twitter @ASGGN_GRA. \nAchievements by Network members are: \n\nThe publication of a practice brief in partnership with CCAFS on improved ruminant genetics for productivity and climate change outcomes\nThe submission of a paper on ‘Phenotypes to genetically reduce greenhouse gas emissions’\nThe publication of a paper in Animal (Volume 9\, Issue 9)\, ‘Animal board invited review: genetic possibilities to reduce enteric methane emissions from ruminants’\nThe set-up of a Feed and Gas Working Group as part of the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR)\, focused on information exchange relating to recording and using dry matter intake data and methane outputs data.\nThe Enteric Flagship project aims to develop microbial and genomic predictors for differences in methane emitted by different cattle species from different production systems\, across the globe. By making use of Genotyping-by-sequencing\, a high-throughput technology that optimises processing time and cost\, the microbial profile of thousands of animals can be obtained from rumen samples. Collaborators are welcome – more information can be found here.\n\nThe Network is focused on: \n\nCommon protocols for the measurement of individual methane emissions (and associated traits\, or at least calibrations of measurement differences between countries)\nCo-measurement of appropriate correlated and productive traits that could serve as proxies measured on a large (national) scale\nFormalised protocols for the collection and storage of data (including direct and indirect phenotypes\, DNA\, and rumen samples (if available)) from all animals measured\nCriteria for data sharing\, combining and analysis (including meta-analysis among all contributing parties).\n\nThe Network is also looking at developing a potential study on breeding goals and how they differ globally\, and developing a better biological understanding of heritability. It is also interested in the role of genetics in adapting to climate change\, including identifying knowledge gaps for further research. \nIn 2018\, the Network held a meeting in the margins of the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production in Auckland\, New Zealand. \nContact: \nFor more information about the Animal Selection\, Genetics & Genomics Network\, please contact Coordinator: Suzanne Rowe (suzanne.rowe@agresearch.co.nz). URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org/research/livestock/networks/animal-selection-genetics-genomics-network/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://globalresearchalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Livestock-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTSTAMP:20260607T160742 CREATED:20170426T211033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230510T022941Z UID:6060-1780848462-1780848462@globalresearchalliance.org SUMMARY:Animal Health & Greenhouse Gas Emissions Intensity Network DESCRIPTION:Animal Health and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Intensity Network (AHN) is an international network focusing on the interplay between animal health and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from a systemic perspective. \n\n\n\nImproved animal health contributes to greater gains in efficiency and productivity\, which in turn helps reduce the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) intensity of livestock farming. \n\n\n\nAHN aims to bring together researchers\, governments\, non-governmental organizations\, private sector from multiple backgrounds to: \n\n\n\n\ndiscuss and find inter-disciplinary approaches to understand and tackle the impacts of climate change on animal health and the impacts of animal health on the environment. In this aspect\, the interrelation of diseases with feeding\, breeding\, immune response and the consequential impacts on GHG emissions both in terms of emissions intensity and absolute emissions are of great interest to the Network (Figure 1).\n\n\n\nadvance the process of integrating animal health interventions to policy settings such as linking animal health data and disease surveillance systems to Tier 2 GHG inventories and the updates of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).\n\n\n\n\nFigure 1: Overview of livestock health and pathogen modelling\, and interactions with other modelling disciplines (Source: Özkan et al. (2016))\n\n\n\nPlanned Activities \n\n\n\n\nThe network is putting together a COST application (due October 2022)\n\n\n\nThe network is engaged in a policy brief on how to incorporate animal health interventions to climate policies\n\n\n\n\nPast Activities \n\n\n\n2022 Livestock Research Group Meeting \n\n\n\n\nThe annual meeting of the Livestock Research Group took place over 3 days on the 18th-20th October. This year\, as with last\, was an online format with the recordings available on YouTube.\n\n\n\nOn Day 1 we heard from Andy Reisinger the NZ Climate Change Commissioner Keynote on ‘Methane\, metrics\, and mitigation: Insights from IPCC reports and recent literature’ before hearing from a number of industry stakeholders; Donald Moore (Global Dairy Platform)\, Pania King (Kiriroa Station\, Māori Farmers from Te Tairāwhiti) and Ruaraidh Petre (Global Round Table on Sustainable Beef) on ‘Scientific challenges global organizations are facing to respond to the challenge of climate change’. \n\n\n\nDay 2 very much focused on individual networks and GRA Flagship project updates\, with Day 3 giving the Network Leads the opportunity to lay out their plans for the upcoming year. So\, if you want to know more about the activities of the AHN and the other networks you can access all of the recordings here.\n\n\n\n\n2022 AHN Workshop\, Orlando\, USA \n\n\n\n2021 AHN Online Workshop \n\n\n\n2017 AHN Webinar \n\n\n\n2016 AHN Third Annual Workshop\, Elsinore\, Denmark   \n\n\n\n2015 GRA Livestock Research Groups Networks Workshop\, Reading\, UK \n\n\n\n2015 FACCE-JPI MACSUR/AHN Joint Workshop\, Reading\, UK \n\n\n\n2015 AHN Second Annual Workshop\, Montpellier\, France \n\n\n\n2014 AHN Regional Workshop\, Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia \n\n\n\n2014 AHN First Annual Workshop\, Dublin\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRelevant publications by members & further reading \n\n\n\nNetwork coordinators brought together a list of papers relevant to the network activities that can be found here. Members are encouraged to send any updates on recent work related to the animal health and environment domain to the co-leads. \n\n\n\nRelevant projects by members \n\n\n\n\nSustainable ruminant production: Feed\, microbiome and immune efficiency in low and high methane emitting dairy cows. LINK\n\n\n\nClearFarm: Improving animal welfare through precision livestock farming (PLF) technology. LINK\n\n\n\n\nTwitter account \n\n\n\nFollow us at @AHN_GRA \n\n\n\nMembership \n\n\n\nAccording to the updated list of membership as of February 2022\, the network has 44 members from 17 countries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact co-leads to join the network and share experiences and ideas: \n\n\n\nŞeyda Özkan (FAO)Nick Wheelhouse (Napier University)seyda.ozkan@fao.orgN.Wheelhouse@napier.ac.uk\n\n\n\nRelevant links \n\n\n\nGASL\, STAR-IDAZ\, IVVN\, GBADS \n\n\n\nCLIFF-GRADS funds PhD students from developing countries to collaborate with a host Institution with equipment or expertise that benefits their project. URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org/research/livestock/networks/animal-health-network/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://globalresearchalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/livestock-3-64224019.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTSTAMP:20260607T160742 CREATED:20160629T052500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T005447Z UID:5447-1780848462-1780848462@globalresearchalliance.org SUMMARY:Independent Networks DESCRIPTION:The GRA hosts independent networks that each have a broad focus and can contribute to all Research Groups\, these independent networks report to the GRA Special Representative. URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org/research/integrative/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://globalresearchalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/InvHeroResized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTSTAMP:20260607T160742 CREATED:20150622T045144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170220T204953Z UID:128-1780848462-1780848462@globalresearchalliance.org SUMMARY:Inventories & Monitoring DESCRIPTION:Promote and support consistent methodologies for measurement and estimation of greenhouse gas emissions and removals and compilation of emissions inventories.\nThe Group concentrates on issues that cut across the three Research Groups (livestock\, croplands and paddy rice) and that: \n\nComplement and support the work of these Groups\nPromote improved methodological approaches\n\nThe Group shares information\, knowledge\, and data on inventory methods to identify priorities for collaboration that improve comparability\, coherence\, quality\, and verifiability of emissions trends and potential mitigation actions. URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org/research/inventories-monitoring/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://globalresearchalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/InvHeroResized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTSTAMP:20260607T160742 CREATED:20150622T041554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T054015Z UID:124-1780848462-1780848462@globalresearchalliance.org SUMMARY:Soil Carbon & Nitrogen Cycling DESCRIPTION:Soil Carbon & Nitrogen Cycling Cross-Cutting Group\nAgricultural systems contribute to the biosphere-atmosphere exchange of radiatively active trace gases\, with fluxes intimately linked to management practices. Of the three greenhouse gases (GHGs) that are exchanged by agricultural lands\, CO2 is exchanged with the soil and vegetation\, N2O is emitted by soils\, and CH4 is emitted by livestock during grazing and by wetland soils. The magnitude of these GHG exchanges with the atmosphere varies according to several factors: climate\, soil\, vegetation\, management\, and global environment. \nThe aim of the Soil C & N cycling cross-cutting group (SCNC) is to improve and assess models and methodologies related to soil carbon and nitrogen cycling and to evaluate mitigation options through modeling. \nWorkplan\nThe workplan has been approved in 2012 (Bari\, Italy) and is regularly updated. It has been structured around the following topics and areas of work: \n\nDefining common objectives relating to soil carbon and nitrogen cycling modelling across the Research Groups\nBuilding collective expertise on applicability of models\, uncertainty and mitigation options\nBuilding a common modelling platform from multiple models URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org/research/soil-carbon-nitrogen-cycling/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://globalresearchalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/SoilHeroResized.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTSTAMP:20260607T160742 CREATED:20150622T041031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T010013Z UID:123-1780848462-1780848462@globalresearchalliance.org SUMMARY:Crop and Land Use Research Group DESCRIPTION:Focused on reducing greenhouse gas intensity and improving overall production efficiency of cropland systems. URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org/research/croplands/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://globalresearchalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/croplands-4-92145430.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTSTAMP:20260607T160742 CREATED:20150622T035029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251005T214433Z UID:113-1780848462-1780848462@globalresearchalliance.org SUMMARY:Livestock DESCRIPTION:Focused on reducing the emissions intensity of livestock production systems and increasing the quantity of carbon stored in soils supporting these systems. URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org/research/livestock/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://globalresearchalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/livestock-2-133306793.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260607T160742 DTSTAMP:20260607T160742 CREATED:20150619T025138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T004106Z UID:60-1780848462-1780848462@globalresearchalliance.org SUMMARY:Rice Research Group DESCRIPTION:Focused on reducing the emissions intensity of paddy rice cultivation systems\, while improving its overall production efficiency. URL:https://globalresearchalliance.org/research/paddy-rice/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://globalresearchalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/RicePaddyHeroResized.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR