WUN Global Challenge: Responding to Climate Change

Partners Activities (2016 – 2017)• University of Bristol (UB)

• University of Alberta (UA)

• University of Leeds (UL)

• University of Sydney (US)

• University of Western Australia (UWA)

• Zhejiang University (ZU)

• Bahir Dar University (BDU)

• Kansas State University (KSU)

• Kerala Veterinary & Animal Science University (KVASU)

• Massey University (MU)

• Penn State University (PSU)

• University of Wisconsin Madison (UWM)

• National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA)

• Small Scale Livestock and Livelihoods Programme (SSLLP)

• Rothamsted Research – North Wyke (RR-‐NW)

• International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT – Kenya)

The major activity will be focused grant-writing workshops to target specific funding streams for each of the sub-‐projects. Support was asked the WUN for Sub-Projects 1 and 2; 3 and 4 are in the ‘pipeline’.

1. New Unified Dairy Genetics – Towards the ‘Dairy Stabiliser’ for the Tropics

2. Towards State-‐of-‐the-‐Art Breeding in Grassland Production Systems

3. Soil Organic Carbon – devising a single proxy measure for the sustainability of pastoral systems

4. Global potential of deep rooting perennial grasses to counter climate change

VISIT: https://wun.ac.uk/article/steps-to-sustainable-livestock

Programme Summary