Division of Food Production and Society
ProRefine
ProRefine - New methods for producing high quality feed locally
Projects
NIBIO is a project driven research institute and collects approximately 400 million NOK annually in project funding from both national and international sources. A lot of activity is carried out through EU and EEA-projects and we also participate in research projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America. NIBIO coordinates several large international projects with a particular focus on food security and climate change. The list of projects is not complete.
Division of Forest and Forest Resources
BalanC - The impact of increasing spruce plantation area on the carbon balance of forests in Western Norway
The BalanC project aims at investigating the effects of tree species change on the carbon balance of the forest and its products and the climatic feedback (albedo) of forest ecosystems in Western Norway.
Division of Food Production and Society
Measures to increase sustainability in Norwegian vegetable production.
Reduced use of herbicides and improved soil conditions - using false seedbed and catch crops.
Division of Food Production and Society
Grazecarb. Sustainable livestock systems: reducing GHG emissions and improving production efficiency in grazing sheep
Primary and secondary objectives
The primary objective is to measure in vivo methane (CH4) emission from dairy sheep at pasture
Secondary objectives are:
- To obtain algorithms that can be used in LCA studies to improve estimations of enteric CH4 emissions from grazing sheep
- To define key factors to be targeted to reduce CH4 emissions in grazing sheep
- To contribute to literature on CH4 estimations in grazing animals with methods based on markers