SARChI Bio-economy Research Chair

Industrial scale farming is flawed: what #ecologically-friendly farming practices could look like in #Africa theconversation.com/industrial-sca… via @TC_Africa

Checkout a new publication from our Doctoral candidate: ‘Living #bread between the mountains’: an exploration of contemporary #foodway changes in the #Cederberg mountains of South Africa. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Ethical Ethnobotany – An Interactive Session at the Indigenous Plant Use Forum Conference bio-economy.org.za/ethical-ethnob…

Claire Rousell & Dr. Brittany Kesselman’s visual essay on colonialism's impact on human-plant relationships is now live! Published in Oct 2024 in the Grassroots Platform, Journal of Political Ecology. See full visual: grassrootsjpe.org/how-colonialis…

We have an exciting collaborative post-doctoral research fellowship centred on the properties and #relations of #maize, beginning early 2025. The project adopts #multispecies perspectives on agrarian change in South Africa. See link for details: bio-economy.org.za/post-doc-posit…

Don't miss this exciting and powerful exhibition debuting at the Cape of Good Hope on November 18th!

Join us for the screening of #TheLastSeed movie documentary next week Wednesday at #UCT, EGS department.

....And that’s a wrap! Thank you to our SKI colleagues @seedknowledgei, the organisers, and our gracious hosts in Harare. We look forward to the exciting future collaborations with the Zimbabwe Agroecology Knowledge Network.

The Seed & Knowledge Initiative's 10th anniversary continues in Harare, Zimbabwe. The day started with a panel discussion on opportunities and barriers to advancing agroecology in Africa. Some of the panellists are featured in the #African perspectives on #Agroecology book.

Million Belay of @afsafrica spoke about continental #agroecology struggles at the opening of the @seedandknowledgei meeting taking place this week in Harare.

Witness Kozanayi of Marondera University talking about the #agroecology landscape at academic institutions in Zimbabwe, at the Zimbabwe #agroecology knowledge network meeting.

More than 150 delegates from the farming, NGO, government, and academic community are celebrating 10 years of Seed and Knowledge Initiative in Zimbabwe. Fabulous energy, the room is buzzing #agroecology #Seed #DecolonisingEpistemicCommons

Prof. Wynberg and her Postdocs were in Kalk Bay today, planning and discussing collaborations, publications, and future projects for #SARChIBioeconomy.

A few of our postgrads and postdocs are in Morocco attending the 18th congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology. They also hosted a session on "Nourishing Diversity: Exploring the Interplay of Local Foodways, Biodiversity, and Cultural Landscapes in the Global South".

Yesterday was a milestone - the establishment of an agroecology knowledge network for tertiary education institutions and research organisations in South Africa. Inspiring to engage with this committed and passionate group who support a paradigm shift towards a more sustainable.

Stephen Greenberg of ACB presenting on the policy context for #agroecology research and curricula in South Africa #AgroecologyKnowledgeNetwork meeting.

Prof Raymond Auerbach is at the agroecology knowledge network meeting presenting on the potential to produce good food without destroying the environment, with a look at the health, social and environmental benefits of #agroecology

Ethel Phiri from Stellenbosch University shares lessons from their masters programme in sustainable agriculture, stressing the importance of interdisciplinary teams and ensuring capacities for systems thinking to break out of silos for #agroecologytransitions

Linus Franke talking about the types of knowledge that students need when learning about #agroecology, to ensure the knowledge is useful to farmers in their local context.

Mvu Ngcoya of UKZN sharing experiences of experiential #agroecology learning and urges that "we need to open up the epistemic commons" for system transformation.