What are we doing in Africa?
New Zealand has committed NZ$5 million (2020-2025) in funding to African activities in the Initiative. They are improving the agricultural greenhouse gas inventory, building capacity, and increasing networking between the science and policy communities in ten eastern and southern African countries.
As of February 2024, improved (Tier 2) cattle greenhouse gas measurement has been developed and validated in eight partner countries. 154 people have received training in data compilation, reporting and agricultural mitigation policy options. Regional Measurement Hubs are being established in Kenya and South Africa; and inventory research work continues in Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Workshop between Kenyan CSA partners and the project coordinators of other major livestock programmes in the country (Feb 2024). The CSA initiative will use the enhanced measurement capacity to do mitigation potential analysis of these other programmes.
CSA experiments underway at ILRI’s Mazingira Centre, Nairobi (Feb 2024). The NZ funded equipment is part of establishing a regional GHG measurement Hub for East Africa.
Cutting edge 'Greenfeed' and 'Smart feed' livestock GHG equipment being installed at Innovation Africa research farm, University of Pretoria (July 2023). Part of the CSA's new regional research hub for Southern Africa.
Zimbabwe's Department of Livestock Research held a success Validation Workshop with all stakeholders at Holiday Inn Hotel Harare (27 Oct 2023). These workshops, held in each country, are a crucial step in inventory improvement using new 'Tier 2' methodology.
Uganda's Makerere University is contributing research into cattle feed and diet. They are connected to the new East Africa Measurement hub at ILRI, Nairobi, for training and using their equipment.
Botswana's National Agricultural Research and Development Institute (NARDI) successfully integrated their new livestock GHG inventory team into the wider climate action agenda at a workshop (July 2023).
Malawi's Initial Inception Workshop was used to train all stakeholders in GHG measurement and inventory compilation.
Implementation Partners
In-country partners
