 My name is Lutz Meboldt. I'm currently in charge of Ilvis-Masangiro Centre, which is a state-of-the-art environmental research laboratory and within the program of climate smart livestock I'm leading activity A and also contributing to activity C, which means activity A is we are really focusing on providing essential localized data on greenhouse gas emission baselines from livestock systems in East Africa but also we're trying to test specific interventions which are realistic for farmers to be implemented to become more climate smart meaning to improve their farm productivity to potentially reduce negative environmental impacts but also to be better adopted to climate change. Pacific activities is really what I just mentioned baselining so trying to understand the currently existing livestock systems this builds on experience we have from past projects but now we're expanding not just to different countries we're also going to Ethiopia and Uganda but also to systems we have not studied yet and this is particularly important because we need local data in terms of greenhouse gas emissions from animals from soils from manure from livestock systems in general to allow these individual countries to report under their NDCs and UNFCCC and the Paris climate agreement but also all these countries have signed the Paris climate agreement and they have to show how they can reduce emissions over time and you can only actually prove that you're reducing emissions if you actually know what your emissions are at the moment and this data has not been available so far and we're not just getting the baselining but we're also looking at farm productivity at current farm practices and farm management and try to identify identify options to actually boost productivity without compromising the environment. I think the program for climate smart livestock is especially important not just for the countries themselves to really fulfill their requirements under the Paris climate agreement but it is the first time the chance that we had a larger regional scale getting real localized data which really has not been available so far and can sort of evidence-based decision making also following what the farm systems look like what are management practices and how we can really sort of come to a brighter climate smart future and a big component of that is actually also capacity building so we have a lot of students on board who do this kind of work in the field together with the scientists but we mean which means we have master students in each of the countries locally employed we have research assistants so you're sort of also building capacity in terms of technical skills which are yet to be built and we have a whole range of PhD students who really sort of can become the future generation of scientists in the area of environmental sciences or global climate change science. I think what is really really cool about the project is that we are not just doing biophysical measurements but we're actually trying to multi-disciplinary understand systems so we have also our social scientists in the team are futures and are sort of people working together and we're looking at many different angles within the project but it's actually different disciplines working together as a team and it's not just individual components the whole project is built in a way that these are should interlink with each other and what I expect what we will have reached in four years or roughly four years when the project is finishing is first of all we have scientific evidence I mean we will have basically scientific publications which really prove on what is currently ongoing in livestock system in eastern Africa with that I think we have a whole pool of very skilled young researchers and research technicians who can actually sort of follow up on that locally and within local governments and what I really hope is that also that there is a bigger and better and more realistic understanding between the governments and also a link how things can be achieved at a farm level what needs to be done to become a real climate smart.