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Africa Week 2025 panel discussion: ‘Africa’s food insecurity is a global security issue’

Africa’s food insecurity is not just a development challenge — it’s a global security issue. That was the message from panellists at Africa Week 2025, who highlighted the links between hunger, conflict, climate change and governance failures, and called for integrated, long-term responses.

Call for Abstracts: TFCA’s Symposium

The Future Africa Research Chair in Sustainability Transformations, a joint initiative of the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town, in partnership with the SARChI Chair in the Political Economy of Migration in the SADC Region,

Newsletter: One Health Focus – April 2025

This edition of the One Health newsletter highlights the importance of environmental health, a critical and often underrepresented part of understanding the broader challenges in animal, plant and human health.

Future Africa to lead science mission for Mapungubwe revival

Drawing on lessons from the rise and fall of the ancient Mapungubwe Kingdom, a proposal led by Professor Maano Ramutsindela, the UP–UCT Future Africa Research Chair in Sustainability Transformations, has been selected as one of 12 global pilot science missions by the International Science Council (ISC) to accelerate real-world sustainability solutions.

Unpacking STEM Careers: Her Voice in Science

On February 11, 2025, the world marked the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science under the theme "Unpacking STEM Careers: Her Voice in Science." This year’s theme

Cultivating Research Leaders for a Sustainable Future Africa

Future Africa, the University of Pretoria’s collaborative research platform, is at the forefront of fostering scientific leadership across the continent. A recent article in University World News highlights how Future Africa is addressing Africa’s research capacity challenges through the Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF).

Qinisa Initiative hosts UP Vice-Chancellor and New Zealand High Commissioner

UKUDLA – Centre of Excellence for Food Systems and Food Data Science officially launched

On 20 January 2025, during the 11th German-African Agribusiness Forum, UKUDLA – the African-German Centre of Excellence for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems and Applied Agricultural and Food Data Science – was officially launched.

Future Africa Research Chair delivers keynote on Sustainability Transformations at UNIOR launch

Future Africa Research Chair, Professor Ramutsindela, delivers a keynote on Sustainability Transformation at UNIOR launch in Mauritius
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The Politics of Sustainability takes the spotlight at Future Africa’s roundtable discussion

On 1 October 2024, the politics of sustainability took centre stage at a roundtable hosted by Future Africa at the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the University of Oslo.

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