New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre

Helping agriculture reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) is a partnership between leading New Zealand research providers and industry bodies to invest in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions research. The centre was opened in 2010 and is hosted by AgResearch.

NZAGRC's goal is to discover, develop, and make available to New Zealand farmers and growers products, tools, and knowledge that enable the practical and cost-effective reduction of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

Find out more about NZAGRC

NZAGRC investment

$4.85 million per year from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
$4.85 million per year for 4 years from 2019 from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Strategic Science Investment Fund.

Research focuses

NZAGRC is investing in New Zealand agricultural greenhouse gas emissions research. Its vision is to be an internationally renowned centre for research and development.

The centre's research mainly focuses on:

ruminant methane
nitrous oxide
soil carbon
integrated farm systems
identifying and advancing Mātauranga and Te Ao Māori approaches to biological emissions reductions.

It also aims to:

improve coordination of greenhouse gas research
build New Zealand's research capacity by supporting students, early career scientists, technicians and senior scientists
support summer school, Masters and PhD students in New Zealand universities through its Student Scholarship Fund.