SAMPLES addresses the dearth of reliable information about greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in tropical countries. SAMPLES scientists work with developing countries to improve data on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation potentials for smallholder agriculture.

With better information, governments, non-governmental organizations, and farmers can:
1. Identify high-production, low-emissions development trajectories in the agricultural sector.
2. Participate in the emerging green economy and access climate finance
3. Strengthen tropical countries’ negotiating positions in global climate discussions

The CGIAR Research Program Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) coordinates SAMPLES in collaboration with the following CGIAR centers and scientists, and global and regional partners.

CGIAR centers and researchers

International Rice Research Center (IRRI): Ole Sander, Reiner Wassman

International Livestock Research Center (ILRI): Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, John Goopy, David Pelster

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA): Piet van Asten

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT): Anthony Whitbread

World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF): Todd Rosenstock

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT):ML Jat, Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, Tek Sapkota, Clare Stirling

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR): Mariana Rufino

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT): Ngonidzashe Chirinda

Global Partners

FAO’s Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture Program (MICCA)

Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

Regional Partners

Kenya

Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization

Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries 

Maseno University

Tanzania

Sokoine University of Agriculture

Uganda

National Agricultural Research Organization, Uganda

Philippines

Philippine Rice Research Institute

Vietnam

Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry

India

CCS Haryana Agricultural University

Borlaug Institute for South Asia

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Rajendra Agricultural University

Bihar Agriculture University

Indonesia

Indonesian Soil Research Institute

Colombia

Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria

Universidad del Cauca

Universidad Nacional de Colombia: Sede Medellín

Universidad de los Llanos

Costa Rica

Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza

Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia