Agriculture Proceedings
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Introduction and Welcome
Agriculture Subcommittee Co-Chairs Jeremy Eppel, United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Jorge Hilbert, Argentina Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) (PDF, 12 pp, 490 KB)
Session 1 – Addressing the Financing Barrier
Moderator: Jeremy Eppel, DEFRA
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): How it Works and New Carbon Finance Instruments (Post-Kyoto)
Kirtan Sahoo, World Bank (PDF, 21 pp, 525 KB)
Energy for All Partnership
Jiwan Acharya, Asian Development Bank (ADB) (PDF, 9 pp, 208 KB)
Financing Projects in India
K. Umamaheswaran, GTZ International Services
Session 2 – Strategies and Policies to Overcome Barriers and Implement Anaerobic Digestion: Part 1
Moderator: Anil Dhussa, India Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
Overcoming Information Barriers: AD Resource Assessments
Miguel Franco, PA Consulting (PDF, 22 pp, 974 KB)
Overcoming Performance Barriers: Low-Cost Applications of AD to Livestock Waste
Preethi Gopalan, University of Queensland
Overcoming Grid Injection Barriers for Biogas
Surendra Kumar, IIT Roorkee (PDF, 28 pp, 205 KB)
Overcoming Measurement/Evaluation Barriers: Quantifying Fugitive Methane Emissions from Biodigesters
Raymond Desjardins, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (PDF, 27 pp, 1.7 MB)
Overcoming Measurement/Evaluation Barriers: International Guidance for AD Systems
Jorge Hilbert, INTA
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Session 3 – Strategies and Policies to Overcome Barriers and Implement AD: Part 2
Moderator: Chris Voell, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA)
India Strategies and Policies
Anil Dhussa, MNRE (PDF, 26 pp, 355 KB)
United Kingdom: Strategies and Policies
Jeremy Eppel, DEFRA (PDF, 17 pp, 1.6 MB)
China: Strategies and Policies
Kou Jianping, Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (PDF, 14 pp, 1 MB)
Australia: Strategies and Policies
Josh Francis, Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (PDF, 18 pp, 587 KB)
Session 4 – Overcoming Barriers of Scale: Project Bundling
Moderator: Kurt Roos, U.S. EPA
Nepal Biogas Project: A Case for Bundling of Projects for CDM Funding
Prakash Lamichhane, BSP Nepal (PDF, 39 pp, 2 MB)
Thailand Strategies and Policies
Dr. Poon Thiengburanathum, ERDI Chiang Mai University (PDF, 52 pp, 3.7 MB)
Land Bank of the Philippines: Livestock and Agro-Industrial Program
Noemi P. De La Paz, Land Bank of the Philippines (PDF, 21 pp, 287 KB)
Session 5 – Opportunities to Use AD Across the Food and Agriculture Sector
Moderator: Jorge Hilbert, INTA
Agricultural Residues
Kolluru Krishan, EnviTec Biogas India Pvt. Ltd. (PDF, 37 pp, 3.1 MB)
AD Applications in India
Dr. V.V.N. Kishore, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) (PDF, 47 pp, 1.4 MB)
Slaughterhouse Waste
R.A. Ramanujam, Central Leather Research Institute
Food Waste
Andrew Needham, Biogen Greenfinch (PDF, 29 pp, 1.3 MB)
Session 6 – Other Agricultural Sources of Methane
Moderator: Jeremy Eppel, DEFRA
Overview of Rice Production Methods, Geographic Production, and Methane Emissions Estimates
Dr. Kay Sumfleth, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) (PDF, 24 pp, 5.2 MB)
Strategies and Policies for Mitigating Emissions from Rice Cultivation
Akira Nagata, Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) (PDF, 34 pp, 987 KB)
Overview of Enteric Fermentation Methane Emissions and Options for Mitigation
Dr. Daniel Martino, Carbosur (PDF, 37 pp, 2.2 MB)
