Dissemination

Infographic with main messages from METHAGENE

METHAGENE has come to an end! It has been a great journey of 4 years, where multiple disciplines have worked together to come to a way for a large-scale recording of methane emissions of individual ruminants for genetic evaluations. When the idea of METHAGENE was born in 2012, many researchers of different disciplines were targeting to reduce the environmental footprint of animal-derived food using methane mitigation strategies. These strategies included nutrition, microbiological understanding, and improving the animal. Achieving this was very urgent, and there was a need to learn from each other and to create synergies and concensus. Now that METHAGENE has finished, we are proud that we have gained a lot of new insights and that together we moved further than everyone could have moved alone, and the main outcomes are shown in this infographic. Read more➾

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METHAGENE Flyer

METHAGENE has provided a flyer that contains information about this network. What are the aims, how are these achieved, what meetings are regularly organised and what is the timeframe of this COST Action. To provide more input on who can contribute, and how, a factsheet is also published that contains all this information. These flyers and factsheets are translated in several languages, as you can see by the flags below. Feel free to download the pdf and spread the word in your own country when you feel that is appropriate.

Fact-sheet

Flyer

Cows emit less gas.

Koeien geven wat minder gas.
http://www.nrc.nl/handelsblad/2016/05/14/koeien-geven-wat-minder-gas-2277476 (in Dutch)

Scientists from Poznan are working on new type of cows.

Poznańscy naukowcy pracują nad nowym modelem krowy
http://poznan.wyborcza.pl/poznan/1,36001,17687955,Poznanscy_naukowcy_pracuja_nad_nowym_modelem_krowy.html (in Polish).

Methane-and-cow

Metan-i-krowy
http://www.ipla.tv/2015-04-06-metan-i-krowy/vod-6234631 (in Polish).
(Video on the national news Poland).

The burbs of the rumen simulator

Das Rülpsen des Pansensimulators
http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2015-09/kuehe-klima-methan-pansensimulator.pdf (language: Geman)

Large scale methane measurements on individual ruminants for genetic evaluations

• Fact-sheet
• Flyer

Getting to the tiniest carbon footprint

Altering feeding and breeding to reduce methane production is a hot topic and the focus of on-going projects around the world. New findings and goal driven international projects are leading the way. Read more...

Ruminations on climate change

A group of scientists at Wageningen UR Livestock Research in The Netherlands is investigating the damage being done by greenhouse gas emissions from cows and has recently become the centre of METHAGENE, a Europeanwide collaborative network to help resolve this issue. Read more...