RUMINANT

RUMINANT is an IPCC tier 3 digestion and metabolism model for ruminants. The model estimates production of milk and meat, manure production, N excretion, and methane emissions from feed using stoichiometric calculations. A detailed description is provided in Herrero et al. 2013.

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Field	Value
Contributing organisations	International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Contact person	Jens Heinke
Alternate contact	Carlos Quiros
Participatory approach / method to address complexity	Develops learning n...
Target audience	Scientists
When in the project cycle is the tool useful	Identification Implementation
Contribution to gender research	Gender neutral
Spatial scale	Field Farm Landscape Watershed Regional Global
Levels of organizations taken into account	Individual
Source of data	Primary Secondary
Expected output of tool	Tabular
Type of assessment	Status Quo Ex-ante
Tool manual/User guide	Herrero, M.; Havlik, P.; Valin, H.; Notenbaert, A.; Rufino, M. C.; Thornton, P. K.; Blummel, M.; Weiss, F.; Grace, D.; Obersteiner, M.; 2013: Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems. PNAS, vol. 110, no. 52, 20888-20893, doi:10.1073/pnas.1308149110
Citation	Herrero, M.; Havlik, P.; Valin, H.; Notenbaert, A.; Rufino, M. C.; Thornton, P. K.; Blummel, M.; Weiss, F.; Grace, D.; Obersteiner, M.; 2013: Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems. PNAS, vol. 110, no. 52, 20888-20893, doi:10.1073/pnas.1308149110