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The Bio-Economy Research Chair aims to improve understanding of approaches within the bio-economy that facilitate poverty reduction in a manner that is socially just and environmentally sustainable, and to stimulate a community of practice with regard to these approaches. The focus is on building a critical mass of intellectual capacity, enabling human capital development and in particular a new cohort of skilled postgraduate students, and informing policy and public debate in this rapidly evolving but under-developed field. The Chair has a strong focus on engagement with communities, indigenous knowledge holders, and policy-makers, embedding within it a practice of engaged scholarship and social responsiveness.
Despite capacity-building and development activities carried out over the years to support the implementation of access and benefit sharing (ABS), there is still very little knowledge about how genetic resources and traditional knowledge are used by diffe... Read More
The TRUST partners held a successful meeting in Nairobi, Kenya from 23 to 25 May 2016. Hosted by Dr Joshua Kimani, Peter Mwaura, and Betty Rugendo from PHDA (Partners for Health and Development for Africa), participants were exposed to insightful and i... Read More
PhD candidate Maya Marshak reflects on a week in the field in KwaZulu-Natal. In mid-April 2016 we had our first Agri/Cultures project meeting in South Africa. The AgriCultures proj... Read More
Masters student Taryn de Beer reports on her thesis findings. South Africa is a country that consumes, produces and trades genetically modified (GM) food, and has been a strong pr... Read More
Where does southern Africa stand in terms of research agendas, training programmes and tertiary curricula which support agro-ecology, food sovereignty and farmer-led seed and knowledge systems? The second in a series of seminars hosted by the Seed and Kno... Read More
In her recently completed Masters project, Amy Murray conducted a socio-ecological analysis of environmental change over the past 100 years in the Kannaland Municipality of the Klein Karoo. In this st... Read More
Having recently completed her thesis, Claudette Muller gives an update on her study of the buchu industry. Buchu is an aromatic shrub that grows only in selected mountainous ar... Read More
On October 5 and 6, Rachel Wynberg and Jaci van Niekerk attended the inaugural meeting of the TRUST Project in Par... Read More
Masters student, Hellen Mahlase, reports on her work. In this project two case study areas were selected to illustrate the perceived benefits and problems associated with the adoption... Read More
