The Argentina INTA team is the overall Project coordinator and is responsible for achieving the objectives, milestones, and deliverables on time, and enhancing the collaborative work among Project partners. It also leads WP5 and co-leads WP1, WP2 and WP3.
The main research activities of the Argentinian team in WP1 is measuring changes in soil C stocks (INTA Manfredi) and in WP2 is measuring GHG emissions from crop-ruminant livestock farming systems with different level of integration in Buenos Aires (INTA Castelar-INTA Pergamino, INTA Balcarce) Córdoba (INTA Manfredi), and Santiago del Estero provinces (INTA Castelar-INTA Santiago del Estero). Databases from typically mixed crop-beef (INTA Balcarce) and dairy (INTA Rafaela) production systems described in WP1, are being used to review different decision-making tools, participative methodology assessment, and systems modeling in WP3. In WP4 (INTA Castelar), INTA works with stakeholders and communication activities locally and participates in international dissemination activities.
Regarding enteric methane emissions, Argentina counts on trained researchers in the use of the Sulphur Hexafluoride technique, open-circuit respiration chambers, and has recently acquired four GreenFeed systems. These will be located in different agro-climatic regions of Argentina to perform experiments in contrasting crop-ruminant production systems.