Model-based greenhouse gas (GHG) quantification of rice cropping systems

From 18th -19th November KIT, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU) together with the An Giang University Vietnam and the Institute for Agricultural Environment, Vietnam hosted a dissemination workshop in Long Xuyen City, An Giang Province, Vietnam. The workshop had two objectives:
- Provide a platform to discuss local to national needs for GHG emission quantification.
- Enhance the capacity of Vietnamese stakeholders to quantify GHG emissions and to identify and evaluate efficient mitigation options from rice systems using LandscapeDNDC - an ecosystem model developed and hosted by KIT, IMK-IFU.
A total of 30 participants from academia, ministries, national and provincial authorities attended the workshop with scientific presentations and hands-on sessions using a cloud-based user interface for various applications of LandscapeDNDC at site, provincial, and national levels. Possible further cooperation with representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) was explored to assess whether and how LandscapeDNDC could be used to quantify GHG emissions under the program: "Sustainable development of one million hectares of high-quality, low-emission specialized rice associated with green growth in the Mekong Delta by 2030".