Botswana
Eswatini
Kenya
Lesotho
Malawi
Mozambique
South Africa
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Cambodia
Indonesia
Lao PDR
Malaysia
Philippines
Viet Nam
Caribbean Islands
St Lucia
Latin America
Botswana Eswatini Kenya Lesotho Malawi Mozambique South Africa Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Cambodia Indonesia Lao PDR Malaysia Philippines Viet Nam Caribbean Islands St Lucia Latin America
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 that aims to strengthen climate action.
It is helping countries to effectively account for, and mitigate, their agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
See programme documents here:
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.

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)

Traditional forage, sun wilted Taro leaves, being prepared for animal experiments at research facility in Laos.

Cambodia Royal University of Agriculture. Technical Training on Equipment Installation (21 Feb 2024)

New NUOL Laos install equipment.
Discover our work
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Africa
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ASEAN
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Latin America and The Caribbean