This webpage houses all versions of the ACM0010 GHG emission reductions from manure management systems methodology. This methodology is best suited for large scale projects and is applicable to livestock manure management projects under the following conditions (borrowed from the methodology summary):
(a) Farms where livestock populations, comprising of cattle, buffalo, swine, sheep, goats, and/or poultry, is managed under confined conditions;
(b) Farms where manure is not discharged into natural water resources (e.g. rivers or estuaries);
(c) In the case of anaerobic lagoons treatments systems, the depth of the lagoons used for manure management under the baseline scenario should be at least 1 m;
(d) The annual average ambient temperature at the site where the anaerobic manure treatment facility in the baseline existed is higher than 5°C;
(e) In the baseline case, the minimum retention time of manure waste in the anaerobic treatment system is greater than one month;
(f) The Animal Waste Management Systems (AWMSs) in the project case results in no leakage of manure waste into groundwater.
UNFCCC
2013
FAOSTAT is FAO’s corporate data repository. FAOSTAT contains data reported by annual surveys in member countries and dedicated data collection initiatives on areas of particular interest. The FAOSTAT Emissions Database contains country-level tier 1 estimates for the major emission categories in agriculture and land use since 1961. The estimates are based on IPCC 2006 default emission factors and on activity data mostly contained within FAOSTAT and the Global Forest Resources Assessment. Metadata explain the approaches for calculations and their data sources in detail.
FAO
During the development phase of its livestock NAMA, Costa Rica undertook a national pilot, testing mitigation practices on 93 farms in the five regions of the country. This operating manual for the pilot describes the monitoring indicators used by the pilot, with instructions for measurement. It may serve as an example for other countries developing livestock NAMAs.
Mauricio Chacón Navarro & Jorge Esteban Segura Guzmán
2017
Programa Nacional de Ganadería del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería
This presentation discusses how Brazil, Uruguay and Guatemala have approached national MRV systems for the livestock sector. It was presented by Hayden Montgomery (GRA), Meryl Richards (CCAFS), Joao Lampreia (Carbon Trust Brazil), Ericka Lucero (Ministry of Environment, Guatemala), and Walter Oyhantcabal (Ministry of Agriculture, Uruguay) at SBSTA 48 on May 8, 2018 in Bonn, Germany.
Montgomery H, Richards M, Lampreia J, Lucero E, Oyhantcabal W
2018
CGIAR Research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
This presentation gives a background of the development of China’s Tier II inventory, objectives, implementation plans, deliverables, and how they can improve the system moving forward. The presentation was given by Dong Hongmin Ph.D at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) on 12 & 16 October 2018, in Beijing, China.
Hongmin, D
2018
Describes Brazil’s livestock NAMA: the Resource Efficiency Program for Brazil’s Beef Supply Chain. The NAMA proposes to leverage the experience and structure of existing Brazilian initiatives to encourage good practices throughout the beef supply chain to implement an integrated program at scale. The program combines three key elements:
(i) awareness of the benefits of good practices in sub-sectors and the program’s offered assistance package;
(ii) a technical assistance package for individuals in the production chain, including: diagnosis of available opportunities, implementation assistance, accreditation of technology and assistance providers to reduce risks of lending, and assistance and training for financial institutions; and
(iii) a financing package to enable investments in best practices.
Carbon Trust
This is a collection of information and examples describing how countries have used different data sources, methods, approaches and institutional processes to adapt and continually improve a Tier 2 approach for estimating livestock GHG emissions in national GHG inventories. The collection provides numerous case studies of how different countries have applied Tier 2 approaches in the livestock sector. These case studies are intended to inform about the practical methods countries use to compile their livestock GHG inventories and to stimulate those involved in livestock GHG inventories to devise methods for improved inventories that are suited to their national context. The collection also provides links to more formal guidance from the IPCC and other sources.
The collection is based on a review of GHG inventory submissions by 63 countries that currently (2017) use a Tier 2 approach. Enteric fermentation is the largest livestock emission source, and most countries have applied a Tier 2 approach to cattle. The collection, therefore, focuses on the use of Tier 2 approaches in estimating enteric fermentation emissions from cattle, although links with an estimation of cattle manure management methane emissions are also discussed.
All material in this document are provided in an online format in MRV in Practice and Case Studies.
A Wilkes, S van Dijk
2018
Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, UNIQUE Forestry and Land Use
This paper explores two existing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems in Kenya’s dairy sector to investigate the extent to which these M&E systems could be used as the basis for collection and reporting of activity data in support of credible GHG quantification in a dairy sector NAMA in Kenya. One case study described, is a farmer documentation system under development by a Kenyan dairy processor as part of its technical extension activities, and the other is the M&E system of a donor-funded dairy development project.
Wilkes A, Rosenstock TS, Namoi N, Fraval S
2018
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Presents various indicators from a range of sectors (including agriculture) that track different aspects of the adaptation context, process and results to determine if adaptation strategies or investments are meeting their objectives. Provides details on a given indicator’s specific relevance to adaptation (as distinct from general development indicators). Describes the calculation, limitations, and the information needed to use each indicator. Users can conduct tailored searches within the repository to find indicators specific to the agriculture sector.
Anne Hammill, Julie Dekens, Timo Leiter, Julia Olivier, Lena Klockemann, Eva Stock, Anne Gläser
2014
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Verification of livestock emission factors in South Africa
This case study is part of a series, Inventory Practice, that explains methods of MRV inventory compilation. This study examines the process Denmark used for QA/QC and verification of country specific inventory factors.
