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Sheep & Beef Pastures

Adaptive pasture management hits at the heart of some of our biggest environmental challenges - restoring waterway quality, increasing carbon sequestration in our soils and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Location

New Zealand

Market Category

Agriculture

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Why change to adaptive pasture management?

Adaptive sheep and beef pasture management can include reducing synthetic fertiliser and chemical pesticide use, increasing pasture species diversity and changing grazing management.

These changes are bringing positive outcomes for both farming businesses and the surrounding environment and ecosystems.

Sheep and beef farmers moving to adaptive pasture management are experiencing financial resilience against rising input costs, resilience against drought and extreme rainfall events, an increase in herd health, resilience to parasite pressure, and an increased joy of farming.

What types of outcomes can be expected from adaptive pasture management?

Erosion Reduction

Improved Freshwater Health

Improved Soil Health

Climate Change Adaptation

Animal Health Improvements

How does the NZ Climate Innovation market work for farmers?

1. Complete a land assessment

Complete a land assessment and our team will assess your opportunity to sell Claims and earn income from your environmental outcomes.

2. Sell your Claims

Select from our scientifically-supported templates and list your environmental outcomes for sale as Claims on the NZ Climate Innovation market when it launches.

3. Collect your data

Receive offers on Claims

You will be able to list future, in progress or completed Claims for your environmental outcomes. Once your listing is live, you can receive offers to buy these Claims. These offers can come from private corporations, government agencies and beyond. When your Claim is complete, buyers will receive a Claim report containing verifiable data about the outcomes.

Claims and Pledges coming soon

Claim Templates
Pledge Templates

Claim templates are developed by scientists and specialists in the field so you can buy and trade climate outcomes with confidence.

Erosion Mitigation

Developed by Troy Baisden, Nick Conland & Josh Duley

Soil erosion reduces soil fertility and pollutes waterways. This template calculates the reduction in erosion risk achieved by land management actions on farmland using the Universal Soil Loss Equation. The results show the reduction in sediment loads from a farm to their catchment and downstream water bodies.

In development

Soil Carbon Accounting

Developed by Manaaki Whenua

Calculates the change in total organic carbon content ('soil carbon') in the top 30cm of agricultural soils in Aotearoa New Zealand over a period of 5 years, using data from direct physical sampling.

In development

Stock Reduction on Farm

Developed by Calm The Farm

Livestock numbers (both total and per ha) are the leading indicator of farming intensity and greenhouse gas emissions on farms. This Claim demonstrates a sustained reduction in livestock on a farm and calculates the resulting reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Developed

Protect Naturally Uncommon and Threatened Ecosystems

Developed by EcoIndex

There are many unique ecosystems in Aotearoa NZ that are either uncommon, or threatened. These ecosystems often support certain rare species. This Claim recognises the efforts taken to protect these ecosystems from destruction.

In development

Pledges are developed by specialists in regenerative practices and guide farmers and land managers so they can take action and measure outcomes with confidence.

Regenerative Sheep & Beef Pastures

Seeking Developers

This Pledge supports sheep & beef farmers to define the pasture management changes they are making on their farm and capture the data that measures outcomes from a shift to regenerative pasture management.