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The Centre&#39;s integrated solutions research programme concentrates initially on developing the tools needed to design novel, practical, credible and cost effective low GHG emitting farm systems. The Centre&#39;s programme of work will be fully integrated with a companion programme, Farm Management and GHG Manipulation, funded by SLMACC. The Centre&#39;s work programme initially focuses in two areas: modelling enteric CH4 emissions and modelling N2O emissions from grazed pastures; modelling soil carbon processes is a focus of the soil carbon research programme. Models currently exist for both of these processes but they are either too simple to provide new insights (e.g. inventory procedures used by Overseer/Farmax) or complex, requiring input data that are unavailable, and are not validated for NZ. The development of these new improved models will rely on the work being conducted in the programmes of work on CH4, N2O and soil carbon.
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People</span>
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