This action aimed to bring together excellent research consortia to enhance international collaboration in the face of the global issue of climate change mitigation.It crossed three scientific themes:

• Improved methodologies for quantifying GHG emissions and removals in agricultural systems and in national inventories.
• Study of mitigation options at the field, animal and manure management scales with quantification of their technical potential for a range of agricultural systems and regions.
• Quantification of the costs and benefits and of the impacts for food production and for the environment of GHG mitigation options.

The last scientific theme by three cross-cutting topics:

• Greenhouse gas emissions in the agriculture sector arising from agricultural soils including crops and grasslands, domestic livestock and waste management systems.
• Greenhouse gas removals, e.g. through carbon sequestration in agricultural soils.
• Lifecycle of agricultural and food products. GHG mitigation studies taking account of other sectors such as industry, transport, energy and land use change that add to the net greenhouse gas emissions.

This action belongs to the 2010-2020 - Core theme 5 - Mitigation of climate change