CGIAR 82d ago

🌱🐄 Feed has a big impact on how much methane livestock emit. Three CGIAR Centers - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT and ICARDA – have therefore joined forces to screen forages from their genebanks for drought-tolerant, anti-methanogenic and nutritious compounds. 🎥 Watch Dr Bayissa Hatew, of the ILRI Animal Nutrition Lab in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 🇪🇹, explain the screening process. The most promising forages will be validated with animals and then promoted for direct use in livestock systems or used to develop new climate-smart cultivars. The initiative aims to contribute towards a 1.5% reduction in global enteric methane emissions by 2030. #climateaction #ghg #biodiversity #foodsecurity #sustainablefarming