As part of the Climate Smart Agriculture Initiative, New Zealand and the GRA (in collaboration with Climate Sense) are supporting the General Directorate of Animal Health and Production (GDAHP) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of Cambodia to strengthen its capacities to respond to climate change.

This is the first systematic assessment of the risks to livestock producers due to climate change. It includes the implications of the trend towards growing commercial production for vulnerability of commercial livestock production. We at the GRA think this is a powerful analysis of climate risks and “low hanging fruit” opportunities for addressing them very efficiently.

• Video produced by Cambodia’s General Directorate of Animal Health and Production (Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries)
• Funded by the New Zealand government’s Climate Smart Agriculture Initiative, a contribution to the Global Research Alliance.
• See full report below.
• See more details of the Climate Smart Agriculture Initiative at: https://www.climatesmartagriculture.org.nz

Report

The New Zealand government has been supporting RUFORUM, a network of African universities involved in agriculture in graduate research grants through the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA). In April 2024, ILRI was visited by Ackim Mwape, a policy and science relationship advisor at New Zealand Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC).

Read more HERE.

The latest issue of the CRG Newsletter is out now!

Click HERE to view online or below to download.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) of the New Zealand Government has been supporting FONTAGRO on a joint research call through the Global Research Alliance to help in the global effort to cut emissions.

Eight projects were approved as part of the 2024 call, of which four will be co-financed by FONTAGRO and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) of the New Zealand Government, and the other four solely by FONTAGRO.

Read more HERE.

Closing Date: 15 September 2024
Location: St Genès Champanelle

The French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (INRAE) is a public research establishment.

You will work in the Dinamic (Digestion, Nutrition, Food, Metabolism, Microbes) team, whose research includes characterising the ruminal microbial ecosystem in order to understand and manipulate methane emissions from ruminants. Ruminant agriculture is currently under intense social pressure for its contribution to global warming. Ruminants are responsible for around a third of anthropogenic methane production, which is linked to microbial activity in the rumen, the first and largest compartment of their digestive system. 

For more information click HERE.

Closing Date: open until filled
Location: based in Nairobi, Kenya

We are looking for a postdoc to join our team at ILRI’s Mazingira Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. The position is about soil and manure nutrient cycling and GHG emissions to help us develop sustainable management practices for African smallholder farmers. We’re looking for someone with a strong background in GHG measurements.

Below is the link to the job advert (position is open until filled).