Uganda Project
Timeframe
October 2021 to December 2024
Context
Uganda’s economy is driven by agriculture-particularly subsistence farming.
Over 71.8% of the land area is under cultivation. Uganda produces a wide range of crops and livestock products. Beef and dairy production systems contribute to 16% of agricultural GDP and are important source of export earnings.
Agriculture is responsible for 27% of Uganda’s GHG emissions of which 20% comes from enteric methane emissions. Uganda’s NDC (2022) commits to reducing emissions by 24.7% by 2030. Uganda’s NDC highlights the potential for emissions reductions in livestock through improving livestock breeding, yield increase and manure management.
The NZCSA initiative was launched in Uganda in December 2021 to develop and adopt a GHG inventory for beef and dairy cattle using a Tier 2 method. It helps understand Uganda’s cattle sector and data availability that enables Uganda’s implementation of the adaptation and mitigation strategies for GHG.
Impact
The NZ CSA Initiative has enabled Uganda to set up a Tier 2 inventory of greenhouse gas emissions from cattle. This inventory will support Uganda to develop and track the progress of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and reflect these in future.
Please see our reporting.
Resources/Results
Project Information
Project Outputs (Technical)
Implementation Partners
In-country partners
Ministry of Agriculture, Uganda
Ministry of Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF)
Makerere University
National Agricultural Research Organisation
Uganda Bureau of Statistics
National industry bodies, local government and farmers
In-country advisory group representatives
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Uganda
Gulu University
District Veterinary Officers
UCCCU19
Heifer International Uganda
JESA Dairy Farm Ltd
Cattle Inventory Validation Workshop where 25 participants from 9 entities (MAAIF, MWE, UBOS, DLGs, NARO, ILRI, DDA, NGOs, and academia) obtained consensus on the way forward to improve the inventory and to build technical and institutional capacity (Feb 2023)
Mr Derick Senyonga from the Climate Change Department of MWE giving his review on the inventory report, Uganda Validation Workshop (Feb 2023)
% proportion of enteric CH4 emissions by production system. Uganda Validation Workshop (Feb 2023)
One of the achievements of the project is clarity on Cattle population in the period 1990-2021 by production system. Uganda Validation Workshop (Feb 2023)
Tour of a Makerere University laboratory which is doing some of the research (Mar 2023)