Haiku

New Zealand’s leading economic research institute and climate think tank, Motu, uses the Japanese poetry form of “Haiku” to summarise its research in a pithy, plain English manner.

Haiku is a traditional form of poetry consisting of three lines. The first and last lines of a Haiku have five syllables and the middle line has seven syllables.

We’ve taken a leaf out of Motu’s book and created some Haiku poetry to sum up different aspects of the NZAGRC’s scientific research.

Read a selection below and click on them to find out more about the science behind them!

Twenty three percent:

Livestock directly adds this

To current warming

Farming and climate

Bringing countries together

In the G-R-A

Cow fermentation:

Methanogens love rumen

They make CH₄

Efficient farming