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  • Developing a Common Transdisciplinary Research Approach for Innovative Solutions to Food-Energy-Water Challenges

    Food, water, and energy are all fundamental resources for communities to thrive.  Megatrends such as demographic and economic growth, changing user practices and rapid urbanisation continue to increase the demand for food, energy, and water globally. This is a crucially important endeavour in Cape Town which faces a triple exposure to interrelated food, energy, and water crises. Addressing challenges related to these sectors for sustainable futures is key.

  • COVID-19, Africa’s conservation and trophy hunting dilemma

    Trophy hunting takes place across much of sub-Saharan Africa with South Africa, Namibia and Tanzania holding the lion’s share of the market. The debate over its utility as a source of conservation revenue takes on a new urgency in the light of COVID-19.

  • Eastern Cape alliance launches digital network to fight Covid-19 in rural areas

    As Covid-19 infections escalate in the Eastern Cape, confusion, misinformation and anxiety are rife. The need for clear, reliable and locally relevant information is urgent, especially in isolated rural communities. A coalition of farmers, students, academics and activists are using WhatsApp messages in vernacular isiXhosa to get the message out.

  • CALL FOR DST/NRF SARChI-funded PhD APPLICATIONS

    We seek motivated individuals interested to pursue a PhD linked to two projects, namely the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative and the Social‐ecological regime shifts in the Anthropocene project.

  • Accelerating the Transition to a Sustainable Ocean Economy

    The COVID-19 crisis has brought into sharp focus the interconnected nature of people and the environment. This is particularly true of the ocean, which is integral to human well-being and [...]

  • Investing in renewables to replace ageing coal-fired power stations is a no-brainer

    If post-Covid-19 economic recovery really is the number one goal, the stimulus that will have the best short- and long-term multiplier effects will be a massive investment programme in renewables.

  • Exploring resilience through the stories of food innovators in the Western Cape, South Africa

    A new short book explores ‘storymaking’ as a way of unpacking some of the different capacities that social innovators in the food system of the Western Cape, South Africa, are drawing on in their efforts towards resilience.

  • Nexusing Water, Energy and Food to Increase Resilience in the Cape Town Metropolitan Region

    The South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and NWO granted two projects in the first call for proposals of the Cooperation South Africa-The Netherlands research programme. The projects target solutions that balance trade-offs and amplify synergies between the food, water, and energy sectors while simultaneously preserving the environment.

  • Unusual Times Call for Unfamiliar Experiences

    Sharné Bloem's abstract was accepted for an oral presentation at the 2020 Asia Conference on Renewable Energy And Environmental Engineering which took place online as a result of COVID19.