New Zealand, Latin America and the Caribbean

Technical cooperation for resilient agriculture

Meat and dairy farming systems are essential for New Zealand, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Learn about the platforms used by the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), the Ministry for Primary Industries of New Zealand (MPI) and FONTAGRO to promote science and innovation for strengthening national systems’ capacities and supporting agri-food systems in responding efficiently and sustainably to future challenges.

A brief history

More than a decade
of collaborative work.

2010

Climate change and livestock: quantification and mitigation options for methane and nitrous oxide emissions of grazing cattle

  • New Zealand, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic
    Total amount: USD 1,000,000

2014

Developing competitive livestock production systems with low greenhouse gas emissions in Central America

  • Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
    Total amount: USD 857,500

Improvement of animal production systems with an emphasis on dairy farming in the Andean Region within a context of climate change

  • Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
    Total amount: USD 868,000

Livestock and climate change: applied research and knowledge

  • United States, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Spain, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela
    Total amount: USD 139,318

2017

Latin American and Caribbean platform for sustainable intensification of livestock farming

  • Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Spain, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela.

2018

Carbon sequestration opportunities in Latin American and Caribbean soils

  • Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica.
    Total amount: USD 80,000

Sustainable legume-based intensification of livestock farming: Latin American and Caribbean cooperation platform

  • Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Uruguay
    Total amount: USD 1,794,524

2019

Agtech for climate-smart dairy farming

  • Argentina, Costa Rica, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Uruguay
    Total amount: USD 540,9000

Innovation for pasture management

  • Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, United States
    Total amount: USD 512,940

Cattle productivity in the South American Chaco region

  • Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay
    Total amount: USD 657,285

2020

Organic-carbon sequestration in Latin American and Caribbean soils: identification of opportunities and quantification of its economic and environmental impact

  • Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica
    Total amount: USD 1,460,240

2021

Satellite monitoring of quantity and quality of available biomass in pastoral livestock systems in LAC

  • Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay
    Total amount: USD 1,347,547

2022

Innovations for reduced methane
emissions in ruminants

  • Argentina, Colombia
    Total amount: USD 633,609

Platform for the transfer and efficient use of biologicals on Latin American farms

  • Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay
    Total amount: USD 720,483

Biological products for creating resilience to climate change

  • Argentina, Colombia
    Total amount: USD 668,500

Sustainable livestock farming in the Amazon of Peru and Ecuador

  • Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica
    Total amount: USD 600,000
Innovaciones para reducir emision de metano

2023

Nitrogen optimization: strategies to address the climate crisis in food production 

  • Chile, Argentina, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic
    Total amount: USD 1,037,451

Indigenous communities and climate change

  • Argentina, Chile, New Zealand
    Total amount: USD 943,570 

 

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2024

Resilient production to mitigate climate change 

  • Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Dominican Republic 
    Total amount: USD 1,108,764 

Sustainable intensification of production in Central America 

  • Costa Rica, Argentina, Honduras, Panamá, Peru, United States
    Total amount: USD 773,500 

Scaling innovation in pastoral systems 

  • Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica
    Total amount: USD 902,790

Reduction of greenhouse gases in potato-pasture systems of Ecuador and Peru 

  • Ecuador, Peru
    Total amount: USD 900,000
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Events

The path to resilient agriculture in Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean and New Zealand.
Accelerating progress through cooperation. “He waka eke noa”

23 February 2021