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The Joint Research Unit on Herbivores (UMRH)

created in 2012 it is a mixed unit between:

  • the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment(INRAE)
  • the national institute of higher education and research in food, animal health, agronomic and environmental sciences(VetAgro Sup)

    • We study the following topics:
    • animal and farm efficiency
    • the construction, evaluation and prediction of the sensory and nutritional qualities of meat, milk and cheese
    • adaptive capacity and robustness of animals
    • environmental impacts and services due to livestock farming, in particular GHG and nitrogen emissions


    In order to develop sustainable and innovative agrosystems, we explore:

    • agroecology in livestock farming to integrate natural processes in the development of balanced production systems
    • precision breeding to manage farms as closely as possible and limit waste

    For more information, you can visit our website.

    Teams:

  • DINAMIC: Food, digestion, microbes, metabolism and nutrition
  • CARAIBE: behavior, health and well-being
  • COMETE: sustainable farming system
  • PERAQ: husbandry practices, animal robustness and product quality
  • BIOMARQUEURS: biomarkers of performance, adaptation and product quality: tissue functioning

    • holders including 73 researchers



    non-permanents including 19 doctoral and post-doctoral students

    keywords

  • Herbivores-Nutrition-Efficiency
  • well-being-Adaptation-Robustness
  • quality of meat and dairy products
  • greenhouse gas - farming system
  • agroecology

    • scientific papers per year



    journals: Animal-INRA animal production



    patents

    Website

    Metheix is managing data related to methane emissions of ruminants. There are 4 categories of variables that are retrieved from publications. 

    • Animal ( e.g. species, breed, number…)
    • Diet: data about the nutrition of the ruminant
    • Digestion: all measurements of the physiological processes taking place during digestion in animals, like methane emissions
    • Performance: data about animal products such as milk.

    We also collect meta data about the publication itself.


    MeCLAN project is part of the Tsara initiative, launched by two French research institutes, INRAE and CIRAD, in partnership with around twenty African universities and institutes. Its aim is to improve food security, fight global warming, consolidate biodiversity and human and animal health, while strengthening scientific collaboration between Europe and Africa. This project is designed to face the challenges of climate change, and is therefore focusing on the greenhouse gasses produced by livestock farming, particularly methane and nitrous oxide. More specifically, it aims to develop a low-carbon livestock production system in sub-Saharan Africa. Meclan is a data management tool to make it easier to find information on research institutes as well as their facilities, researchers, research topics and publications in the field of greenhouse gas emissions in Sub-Saharan Africa. It will have another interface to collect data about searchers, like their specializations.

    To sum up, Metheix collects data related to methane emissions of ruminants, whereas Meclan collects data related to institutions and their searchers. We can see the relation between the two applications, as a publication can be linked to an institution. For Metheix, the goal is to use the collected data to analyze which factors can have effects on methane emissions and ruminant’s performance. For Meclan, it is to centralize information to be able to find institutions having specific facilities and searchers specialized in specific fields. To reach those goals, both websites have data upload, filtered search of data, maps and graphs for data visualization, as well as data download functionalities.


    You can see the graphical abstract of the project below.