Feedipedia Project

Timeframe

March 2022 to December 2024

Context

Feedipedia is an open-access information system on animal feed resources that provides information on nature, occurrence, chemical composition, nutritional value and safe use of nearly 1400 worldwide livestock feeds.

However, until now Feedipedia didn’t supply data by source nation, so tabulated mean data on the same forage will be based on all global data and may lack accuracy in describing the feed in any particular region. For this reason, there is a need to access data from the AFZ database with recognition of country of origin in its data, so that each country can base its inventory calculations on attributes of feedstuffs from its own and neighbouring countries.

New Zealand is seeking to improve the accessibility of feed and diet data for use in compiling national greenhouse gas inventories for livestock in East and Southern Africa and the ASEAN countries. By making this crucial data available research can avoid the need for a review of the literature and local surveys.

Progress

Feedipedia is now providing country-level data for African and ASEAN countries to allow the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. This has been a big benefit to all the researchers involved in our CSA Initiative.