Animal Feeding / CGIAR / CIAT / Climate Change / Feeds / Forages / LIVESTOCK-FISH

‘Grassroots action’ in livestock feeding to help curb global climate change

In a series of papers, scientists in the Livestock and Fish research program offer new evidence that a potent chemical mechanism operating in the roots of a tropical grass used for livestock feed has enormous potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Referred to as “biological nitrification inhibition” or BNI, the mechanism markedly reduces the conversion … Continue reading