Agri-DENZ newsletter

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 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…