Agri-DENZ newsletter

After many years of occasional collaboration, we had the great pleasure of welcoming Dr. Ali Abdelrahman from Fayoum University in Egypt to our Thünen Institute campus today. Dr. Abdelrahman is currently a scholar at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability in Bonn and took the…

Only two days to go! Join us for the AgriDENZ - Qinisa webinar titled “Charting the Course for Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research in Southern Africa”

Event Details:
Date: 06 November 2025
Time: 10:00 SAST (South Africa) | 09:00 CET (Germany) | 21:00 NZDT (New Zealand)
Registration link: https://lnkd…

The excursion yesterday concluded our AgriDENZ-funded Regional Workshop on Food Loss and Waste in Sub-Saharan Africa. With mostly dry weather, we were able to visit Urban Aquaponics in Gerhardsville. Owner Neil explained to us the sophisticated system, which, with optimized energy and water…

The goal of our annual regional workshops on food loss and waste is to bring together different stakeholder groups, facilitate concrete knowledge sharing on pressing issues, and initiate long-term collaborations. By doing so, we aim to make an active contribution to achieving SDG 12.3.

The second day…

Following several months of preparation, we proudly launched our Regional Workshop on Food Loss and Waste in Sub-Saharan Africa on 27 October 2025. Funded by AgriDENZ project the workshop took place at the Future Africa campus in Pretoria, South Africa.

Alongside with our colleagues from the…

#AgriDENZ project conducted a engaging online workshop series exploring innovative research and practices for soil health, carbon sequestration, and sustainable land management.
These sessions brought together experts from around the world to share cutting-edge insights and practical approaches.

If…

On October 15, 2025, the AgriDENZ project organized an online workshop on Peatlands and Greenhouse Gases: Insights and Mitigation Pathways from New Zealand, South Africa, and Germany.

Heidi van Deventer from the Agricultural Research Council in South Africa presented an overview of the current…

The AgriDENZ Project and the Qinisa Initiative are pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming webinar titled “Charting the Course for Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research in Southern Africa”

This webinar will convene a diverse group of stakeholders to discuss the key findings and…

On October 8, 2025, the AgriDENZ project hosted an online workshop on Agroforestry on Grasslands: Global Perspectives and Practices.

Andreas Gattinger from the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, Germany, presented German agroforestry systems, their history, their current state and gave a glimpse…

On 5 October 2025, the AgriDENZ project hosted a side event during the 9th International Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture (GGAA2025) Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

Entitled “Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Ruminant Production Pasture Systems in Europe, South America, New Zealand,…

The AgriDENZ project hosted an online workshop on Advances in Spectroscopy and Analytical Approaches for Characterizing Soil Organic Carbon on 30th September 2025 with speakers from New Zealand, Germany, Australia and Uruguay.

Marcus Schiedung from the Thünen Institute, Germany kicked off with an…

The AgriDENZ project hosted an online workshop on Carbon Sequestration Potential in Agricultural Soils on 22nd September 2025 with speakers from New Zealand, Germany, Ghana and Uruguay.

Based on national inventories and case studies, the presenters demonstrated how carbon loss mitigation and…

During the first week of September, following the EAAE congress in Bonn, Darran Austin (New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries) visited the German side of the AgriDENZ team at the Thünen institute in Braunschweig. During his visit, Darran had time for both progressing the work in the work…

Earlier this week, the AgriDENZ project, Diálogo Agropecuario Uruguayo-Alemán (DAUA), and UKUDLA successfully co-organized a Pre-Conference Workshop at Tropentag Conference Tropenzentrum 2025 in Bonn, Germany. The workshop convened these three initiatives that are co-financed by the…

We had an interesting and fruitful session at the XVIII EAAE Congress in Bonn last week, where we discussed farm-level GHG accounting approaches, their potential for policymaking, and carbon pricing. One main takeaway we bring with us from this session and the subsequent discussion is that there is…

A reminder of our upcoming first AgriDENZ Webinar, in which we’ll learn more about GHG emissions in dairy production systems and strategies to mitigate these. We will have perspectives from both research and industry in Germany and New Zealand.

Our speakers are confirmed:
Dr Cecile DeKlein, Senior…

Do not miss our organised session on farm level GHG accounting!

In this organised panel discussion, we will discuss current approaches to GHG accounting, the role of farm-level GHG accounting for agricultural policy and ways to harmonise diverse approaches for stringent policy and decision making.

Strengthening scientific exchange between research institutions is one of the key pillars of the AgriDENZ project. The last six months have seen a lot of activity, with four exchanges taking place to deliver against this pillar.

One of the highlights was the visit of Dr. Thiagarajah Ramilan from…

Establishing science-policy dialogues is one of the key pillars of the AgriDENZ project. Farm-level GHG accounting tools is one of the project’s focus topics. A series of policy dialogues were held on farm-level GHG accounting tools to bring these two strands of the project together. The first took…

At the 2025 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin in January, an expert panel “Cultivating a greener future – toward sustainable use of biomass for carbon sequestration” was held. This panel was hosted by the AgriDENZ project and its partners - Thünen Institute, BMEL, MPI and GRA.

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As we previewed in our first newsletter, the AgriDENZ project was officially launched on October 25, 2024, following the AgriGHG-2024 Symposium in Berlin. The event, held at the BMEL offices in Berlin, was jointly hosted by the BMEL and New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). 

The…

In our first newsletter, we highlighted a special two-day workshop, “Food Loss and Waste Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa.” The workshop was financially supported by BMEL and MPI through the AgriDENZ project. 

Here we showcase the eighth annual FLW workshop, organised as part of the Collaboration…

The “International Research Symposium on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: From Research to Implementation” took place from October 21 – 23, 2024, in Berlin, Germany. The event was hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), with support from the AgriDENZ project, and…