The ambitions are high and the chains both aim to develop an approach that is widely applicable and that will also become widely available. This prompted them to start a four-year program (PPP) together with WUR.
Research activities
From the research perspective, the approach in the first year will focus particularly on the following components where an important premise is that ultimately an approach with associated tools will be developed that will enable scale-up to large numbers of dairy farmers.
- Make farm-specific plans with data from the KringloopWijzer for individual dairy farms aimed at substantial emission reduction with appropriate measures for the farm situation.
- The further development of the approach to plan formation and progress monitoring. The applied approach will be evaluated and combined with the latest scientific insights on change processes. Scaling up plays an important role here.
- Getting facts straight. Greenhouse gas emissions in dairy farming is still a relatively new topic. It is useful to set out the facts about certain subjects in a practical and accessible way in fact sheets. With new reduction measures it becomes clear what the principle behind them is and in what situation they work. Another subject that will certainly be addressed is the (im)possibilities of carbon sequestration.
