We’re proud to share the session recordings from the 2026 New Zealand Agriculture and Climate Change Conference!

The recordings cover a wide range of topics, from the latest research and innovation to practical conversations about the opportunities and challenges ahead for reducing agricultural emissions in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Click HERE to view the recordings.

The Global Research Alliance (GRA) & the African Climate Action Partnership (AfCAP) cordially invite you to register for our upcoming webinar on “Strengthening livestock GHG inventories in Africa: Lessons from the NZ CSA Initiative”. This engaging session will bring together inventory and livestock experts, national inventory compilers, researchers, government officials, and development partners involved in agricultural GHG measurement and reporting to gain practical insights into how African countries are strengthening agricultural GHG inventories through Tier 2 approaches. Attendees will also learn about the benefits and challenges of these transitions, their policy relevance, the value of regional collaboration, and hear directly from Zimbabwe’s experience. 

Webinar Overview:   

This session will showcase key capability-building activities in Africa, centred on improving agricultural GHG inventories, and the role of the AFCAP Livestock Community of Practice. Under the NZ Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Initiative, technical work in ten countries has moved beyond default emissions estimates to full Tier 2 approaches. The webinar will highlight the practical benefits and challenges of Tier upgrades, their policy relevance, the value of regional collaboration through AFCAP, and insights from the Zimbabwean government.   

Event Details   

Title: Strengthening livestock GHG inventories in Africa: Lessons from the NZ CSA Initiative 

When: 11 June 2026 

Time: 10:00 SAST / 11:00 EAT / 09:00 WAT / 08:00 GMT 

Where: Via Zoom  

REGISTER HERE  

The Global AgriInno Challenge (GAC) 2026 is now accepting applications from innovators worldwide working to transform agrifood systems in Small Island Developing States.

Jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Zhejiang University, and Pinduoduo, this sixth edition of the competition places SIDS at the center of global agrifood innovation, regions that face some of the world’s most pressing climate and food security challenges yet remain underserved by mainstream technology ecosystems.

GAC 2026 is open to agripreneurs and startups from any country, provided their solution directly addresses agrifood challenges facing SIDS or has been deployed within a SIDS context. Teams originating from or led by individuals from SIDS are strongly encouraged to apply.

Thirteen finalists will be selected through a competitive global screening process. Five of these spots are reserved for teams from the twelve SIDS countries participating in the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Project: Bahamas, Barbados, Cabo Verde, Comoros, Cook Islands, Fiji, Grenada, Maldives, São Tomé and Príncipe, Solomon Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vanuatu.

All finalists will travel to Hangzhou, China in August 2026 for an immersive week of expert workshops, investor matchmaking, and the Global Final Pitch before an international jury.

Click HERE for further information.

The GANASUR team during a recent Workshop

The GANASUR project – “Developing Mitigation Strategies for the Livestock Sector Through a Collaborative Approach Across the Southern Cone”– is wrapping up in June, but it has positioned the region as a leader in low-emissions livestock approaches in South America.

Funded through the New Zealand Government’s Climate Smart Agriculture Initiative, as part of its contribution to the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), and coordinated by PROCISUR, GANASUR brought together leading scientific institutions from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. This regional collaboration has generated practical evidence that can be used directly by policymakers.

From Fragmented Data to a Shared Evidence Base

A core achievement of GANASUR is the development of harmonised, region-wide “Business-As-Usual” baselines across diverse beef production systems in the Southern Cone. By using consistent methods and verifying typical pastural beef systems, the project created a shared evidence base to enable:

• robust comparison of mitigation strategies across countries,
• greater confidence in regional and national emissions estimates, and
• consistency with international reporting and GRA priorities.

This shared baseline is a critical step toward mitigation actions that can be compared and scaled up. It also allowed the creation of mitigation scenarios, which are useful because they show both the full potential and the realistic pathway for action:

• Maximum Theoretical Scenario – representing the highest potential mitigation achievable under full implementation of all measures. This helps set ambition and understand the total opportunity.
• Plausible Scenario – reviewed and agreed by stakeholders within each participating country. This makes it far more relevant for policy design and implementation.

Identifying What Works: Mitigation with Measurable Impact

GANASUR has moved beyond theory to quantify what mitigation options actually deliver across productivity, emissions, and profitability. The project is assessing practical interventions, including:

• improved reproductive efficiency,
• optimised grazing and forage systems, with a particular focus on enhancing forage quality (digestibility and nitrogen content) and availability,
• strategic supplementation, and
• enhanced animal health management.

Anti-methanogenic feed or additives impacts are evaluated on methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions up to the farm-gate to ensure that mitigation pathways are grounded in real farm performance.

Linking Science and Policy: The Economics of Mitigation

A key innovation is the development of Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs) tailored to Southern Cone systems. For each mitigation practice in livestock systems (e.g. better grazing, improved reproduction, feed additives), a MACC answers two key questions:

1. How much can this reduce emissions? (the abatement potential)
2. What does it cost to achieve that reduction? (the cost per unit of emissions reduced)

These options are then plotted so you can compare them side by side. These provide policymakers with clear insights into the:

• cost-effectiveness of mitigation options,

• trade-offs between emissions reduction and farm profitability, and
• opportunities for low-cost, high-impact interventions.

This economic lens is essential for designing credible, implementable mitigation policies and investment strategies.

Why GANASUR Matters for the scientific Community

GANASUR delivers exactly what is needed to accelerate progress aligned with the goals of the GRA:

• Comparable, regionally harmonised data frameworks
• Evidence on scalable mitigation practices
• Integration of productivity, resilience, and emissions outcomes
• Direct relevance for policy and investment decisions

As countries seek to balance food production, economic growth, and emissions reduction, GANASUR provides a replicable model for evidence-based, regionally coordinated climate action in livestock systems.

Its insights will inform policy development, mitigation strategies, and international collaboration, helping ensure that livestock systems in the Southern Cone and beyond are productive, resilient, and aligned with global climate ambitions.

Read more HERE:

“The Global Methane Hub is offering travel grants to researchers who work in Low and Middle Income Countries in order to facilitate their travel to the International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics 2026.”

A list of eligible LMIC countries can be downloaded here. These countries have been classified by World Bank metrics. 

Applications will be assessed by the ISRFG26 Scientific organising group. Successful applicants will receive free registration for ISRFG26 and 5 nights accommodation in London. We will also provide up to $500 to support travel to London.

 Application deadline is June 1st 2026. 

We will inform successful applicants soon after the deadline so that flights can be booked well in advance of travel.

An application can be submitted HERE

Manure management on livestock farms contributes significantly to the climate impact of agriculture via emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia. The IPCC tier 2 method to estimate methane emissions, developed in 1996, is based on the maximal methane production rate of fresh excreta (B₀) and a conversion factor MCF to account for storage conditions. This calculation concept was meant to be simple, because it should be applicable worldwide, including regions where the staff carrying out the calculations has limited information about manure management systems or expertise in how management and environmental conditions may affect the processes behind methane emissions. Three researchers with much experience in developing models to calculate methane emissions from livestock farming will present new improvements of the tier 2 method as well as alternative approaches for calculating the emission. The intention of the webinar is to stimulate new initiatives to investigate the calculation of methane emissions from manure management, with the aim to develop a new generation of methods.

A video recording of the webinar are now available to view HERE