1. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Learning how using EX-ACT – Module 11/14 How to use the Livestock Module? © FAO March 2010: All rights reserved. Reproduction and dissemination of material contained on FAO's Web site for educational or other non-commercial purposes are authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of material for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without the written permission of the copyright holders. Applications for such permission should be addressed to: copyright@fao.org. copyright@fao.org

2. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO This module is part of a set of power points that describes how works the EX- ACT tool. EX-ACT (Ex-Ante Carbon-balance tool) is a tool developed by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It is aimed at providing estimations of the mitigation impact of agriculture and forestry development projects, estimating net carbon balance from Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and carbon sequestration. It is a land based accounting system associated with the adoption of alternative land management options (See the linked flyer of the EX-ACT tool). The tool is developed with a modular approach, each module going to be described in such a power point. Acknowledgement

3. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO After reading this module, you should: understand how the livestock module of EX-ACT works; know which data are required to run the livestock module; be able to fill in the livestock module by yourself. Objectives

4. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Main view of EX-ACT User needs to click here

5. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Complete view of the Livestock module

6. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Complete view of the Livestock module Simplest approach by default (Tier-1) Approach with more detailed information (Tier-2) 2 possible approaches: 1 2 12 3

7. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO All other information corresponds to default values… …or intermediary calculations Complete view of the Livestock module Simplest approach by default (Tier-1) Approach with more detailed information (Tier-2) Only few information to fill in

8. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Explanations step by step... 1

9. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...1/5 Definition of the type of livestock The user can choose between: Here are the proposed types of livestock

10. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...1/5 Definition of the type of livestock The user can choose between The user can use its own ad hoc coefficients here For each type of livestock, the user can decide to use IPCC coefficients (yes), or its own coefficients (no) IPCC coefficients that corresponds to the methane emissions from enteric fermentation, depending on the climate conditions

11. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...1/5 Definition of the type of livestock The user can choose between The user gives the number of head for each type of livestock At present time In the future without project In the future with project

12. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...1/5 Definition of the type of livestock The user can choose between By default, the dynamic of changes are considered to be linear But the user can change the dynamic, and choose between linear, immediate, exponential In the future without project In the future with project

13. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...1/5 Definition of the type of livestock He can choose between: The user gives a country type and the mean annual temperature that will affect the coefficients used He enters a temperature that is checked by the tool: Exp: climate described as tropical in description module:

14. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Explanations step by step... 2

15. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...2/5 Calculations made by the tool These tables correspond to the calculations of emissions from enteric fermentation due to the different types of livestock

16. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Explanations step by step... 3

17. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...3/5 Calculations made by the tool These two tables are built within the same structure They give the amount of methane and nitrous oxide emissions due to manure management Type of livestock Default and/or ad hoc coeff. Information given previously by the user (automatically implemented by the tool) Corresponding emissions per year and for the all duration of the project

18. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Explanations step by step... 4

19. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...4/5 Management practices General type of livestock Some brief description of the dominant practices Dominant management practices

20. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...4/5 Management practices The user informs the percentage of livestock that is considered by the previous management practices at present time, in the future without project and in the future with project Coefficient of emissions depending on the region and climate informed in the description module

21. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Explanations step by step... 5

22. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Step by step...5/5 Corresponding GHG emissions This table reports the different emissions calculated by the model Here is the carbon balance of the rice module

23. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO How filling it...Now you know everything about the livestock module... …See the other modules!

24. On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO Glossary On-line resource materials for policy making Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool Global warming potential (GWP) is a measure of how much a given mass of greenhouse gas is estimated to contribute to global warming. It is a relative scale which compares the gas in question to that of the same mass of carbon dioxide (whose GWP is by definition 1) Emission factor: normalized coefficient that allows for calculating the emission fluxes of GHG Carbon sink: system that absorb naturally a part of the CO 2 emitted in the atmosphere and store carbon during a more or less long term Carbon balance: should be considered, for a specific project (or scenario of action) in comparison with a reference, as the net balance of all GHG emissions expressed in CO 2 equivalent (sources and sinks) with the atmosphere interface and the net change in C stocks (biomass, soil…).