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Articles, field evidence, free tools and research on natural capital, nature finance and One Health in Africa, by our founder Moffatt Kang’iri Ngugi, PhD.

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Carbon, blue carbon, benefit-sharing, rangelands, wildlife conflict, natural capital accounts and nature risk. Free, nothing to install.

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01 / About Zingira Pesa

Making green
being green.

A natural capital and nature-finance advisory, conceived in Maputo and registered in Mozambique and Kenya. We make nature pay, and pay the people who protect it.

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LeadershipMoffatt Kang’iri Ngugi, PhD

Founder & CEO. Ecologist, former Environment Diplomat, 32+ countries of field experience.

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What we doSix practices.
One balance sheet.

From the first satellite image to the signed term sheet, each practice feeds the next.

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Natural Capital Accounting CorePutting nature on the balance sheetClimate Finance Advisory From concept note to closed dealCarbon & Biodiversity Markets High-integrity credits, verifiedGeospatial Intelligence & MRV Satellites, LiDAR and boots on the groundClimate-Smart Food Systems Productive land that stays productivePolicy, ESG & Safeguards Strategy, regulation and ESIA
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Selected workMud on the boots. Numbers in the report.

Nine projects across Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda and South Africa, filterable by sphere.

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Kenya Rangeland ValidationUS Army Corps of Engineers research · 2026
Our Ocean Conference side eventOcean data & finance · Mombasa
KHETA field reviewLimpopo–Kruger · Mozambique
Sunset over a lake in Gaza Province, Mozambique
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Publications and research.

Peer-reviewed papers, policy articles, guides and talks by Zingira Pesa’s founder, Moffatt Kang’iri Ngugi, PhD, spanning rangeland ecology, remote sensing, climate-smart agriculture and nature finance. His body of work has been cited around 1,000 times.

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Papers, articles and guides

2025
Policy articleAfrica’s urban future needs climate-smart food systemsNgugi, M. · Observer Research Foundation (ORF Middle East), 22 October 2025
2025
CommentaryA people-first approach to achieving global climate and nature goalsWest, P.C. et al., including Ngugi, M. · One Earth
2023
GuideCarbon Finance Playbook: demystifying the capital-raising process for nature-based carbon projects in emerging marketsUSAID/Mozambique PLANETA, implemented by CrossBoundary · programme overseen by Moffatt as USAID Environment Diplomat
2023
VideoBIFAD public meeting: climate and agrifood systemsExpert panelist · Board for International Food and Agricultural Development, September 2023
2016
Journal articleGrazing lands in Sub-Saharan Africa and their potential role in climate change mitigation: what we do and don’t knowCo-author · Environmental Development 19: 70–74
2015
Assessment reportDeep Dive Assessment of Climate-Smart Agriculture in the USAID Feed the Future Rwanda portfolioHenry, K., Ngugi, M., Quinney, M. and Jarvis, A. · CCAFS
2013
BlogSustainable pastoralism and the benefits of drylandsWith Pablo Manzano (IUCN WISP) · Agrilinks / PAEPARD
2011
Journal articleObject-based crop identification using multiple vegetation indices, textural features and crop phenologyPeña-Barragán, J.M., Ngugi, M.K., Plant, R.E. and Six, J. · Remote Sensing of Environment
2008
Journal articleEcological and social characterization of key resource areas in Kenyan rangelandsNgugi, M.K. and Conant, R.T. · Journal of Arid Environments, pp. 820–835
2006
Conference posterRemote sensing detects key resource areas for large herbivores in Kenyan rangelandsNgugi, M.K. and Conant, R.T. · NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems meeting
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Features and talks

Esri ArcGIS Blog

A growing success story: USAID partnerships deliver results for people and the planet

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ArcGIS StoryMaps

Field visit reports from Gaza, Maputo and Sofala, Mozambique

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PENHA and University of Oxford

Panel on pastoral systems and the fallout from international aid cuts

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Devex

Profile: Moffatt Ngugi

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