You can’t mitigate what you don’t measure
Investment
NZD $25 million
Timeframe
2020 to 2026
Partner Countries
Selected countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, ASEAN, Latin America and the Caribbean
The Climate Smart Agriculture Initiative is a New Zealand funded international development programme strengthening climate action.
It helps countries to effectively account for, and mitigate, their agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
See programme documents here:
Upcoming events
2025
25–28 Nov: GANASUR in person technical meeting in Paraguay.
8-12 Dec: MRV Hub Workshop 3/5 in Grenada.
2026
16-20 Feb: MRV Hub Workshop 4/5 in Grenada
23 Feb-6 Mar: St Lucia project in person meeting.
Late Feb: Dominica in person meeting.
28 Apr-8 May: MRV Hub Workshop 5/5 in New Zealand.
Early May: Mapuche visit to New Zealand. Patagonia indigenous project lead and two young Mapuche leaders will visit Māori entrepreneurs in New Zealand. Visit will focus on indigenous governance, youth leadership, cultural revitalisation, environmental co-management, community enterprises, and intergenerational knowledge transfer.
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Discover our work
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Africa
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ASEAN
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Latin America and The Caribbean
Main activities
Accurate emissions measurement and mitigation is complex. It requires a number of overlapping activities.
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CSA supports the workshops, training and research needed to establish and manage national agricultural inventory systems in line with international standards.
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Training for government decision makers, researchers and inventory compilers to build skills in GHG measurement and mitigation. Local capacity enables development of effective climate and agricultural policies and strategies.
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The Hubs are centres of excellence, with the equipment and expertise to conduct local research, to provide support to lower capacity countries in the region and to be libraries of regional knowledge.
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CSA has installed advanced emissions measurement equipment into most partner countries, to enable independent research into local circumstances.
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CSA is building working connections between each country's ministries, research institutes, their counter parts in the region, and international funding organisations. These relationships will encourage a long-lived agriculture inventory; promote future collaborative projects; and attract outside investment.
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CSA is funding targeted research projects such as animal experiments, farmer surveys and small-scale mitigation pilot. These are crucial to plug data gaps in national inventories and finding local climate solutions, all while building our partner countries capabilities.
The end of the ASEAN NZCSA was marked by a gathering of over 40 policymakers, researchers, and development partners for the ASEAN Climate-Smart Livestock Investors, Extension and Science Forum. Clockwise from top left: Dr. David Pacheco, Mr. Jisu Min, Dr. Kritapon Sommart, and Mr. Beau Damen showcased regional programs supporting livestock GHG mitigation across Southeast Asia. BANGKOK, Thailand (3–4 June 2025)
At COP30, the GANASUR project took centre stage as a leading example of how science and collaboration can drive climate-smart solutions for livestock systems across Latin America (Belém, Brazil, Nov 2025).
Edwin with NZ supplied bomb calorimeter for measuring energy content of feed, PCC Philippines.
Experts from Zimbabwe and Kenya visiting counter parts in Malawi, as part of the AfCAP project peer exchange visits (20 Nov 2023).
Local Agricultural officials in Kien Giang province expressed their enthusiasm and interest in the new digital tool during RiceMoRe training (Sep 2023)
Cambodia Royal University of Agriculture. Technical Training on Equipment Installation (21 Feb 2024)
New NUOL Laos install equipment.