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SUMMARY:Working Hand in Hand for Food System Transformation for a Better Future
DESCRIPTION:Date: 16 October 2025\nTime: 18:00 SAST\nFormat: Virtual Panel Discussion (Zoom)\nMeeting ID: 644 3581 8107\nPasscode: 962473 \nOverview \nIn celebration of World Food Day 2025\, the Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) Food Security Cluster invites you to a virtual panel discussion exploring how cross-disciplinary collaboration can drive sustainable and resilient food systems. This year’s theme\, “Working Hand in Hand for Food System Transformation for a Better Future”\, calls for collective action to build peaceful\, sustainable\, and food-secure societies. The event will bring together experts from across Africa in agriculture\, consumer science\, environmental geography\, plant breeding\, and social science to share insights and innovations for transforming agrifood systems. \nDiscussion Focus \nThe session will highlight how biophysical innovations such as improved plant varieties and urine fertiliser can complement social innovations like behavioural change\, waste prevention\, and community empowerment to achieve lasting impact. \nThe discussion will explore: \n\nCross-disciplinary strategies for transforming agrifood systems\nScientific and social innovations that strengthen food and nutrition security\nCollaborative approaches that link science\, engineering\, and community action for equitable access\n\nJoin us in commemorating World Food Day 2025 and exploring how collective innovation can help build a sustainable and food-secure future for all. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.futureafrica.science/event/working-hand-in-hand-for-food-system-transformation-for-a-better-future/
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SUMMARY:African Political Ecologies Learning Lab
DESCRIPTION:Future Africa invites you to the African Political Ecologies Learning Lab\, hosted by Professor Maano Ramutsindela\, the UP–UCT Future Africa Research Chair in Sustainability Transformations\, in partnership with the Future Earth Leadership Centre. \nDate: Thursday\, 23 October 2025\nTime: 09:00 to 16:00 SAST\nLocation: Online via Zoom. Please register using this LINK to attend\nEnquiries: Contact Dr Claire Chagwiza at claire.chagwiza@futureafrica.science \n\nThe critiques of the Western canon on the relations between society and nature and the consequent practices are useful but have not gone far enough to provide global themes in tune with the African condition. What is the blueprint for how and why we should research the society-nature relations from African(ist) perspectives? How do those perspectives advance progressive policies? The learning lab will engage these questions through an interdisciplinary lens to delineate the scope and directions of African political ecologies (APEs). The main outcome of this engagement is to develop a virtual learning lab for APEs. \n\nHosted by: \n \nProf Maano Ramutsindela is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cape Town\, and also holds the UP-UCT Future Africa Research Chair in Sustainability Transformations. His research explores socioecological relations and the political ecology of peace parks. Read more
URL:https://www.futureafrica.science/event/african-political-ecologies-learning-lab/
CATEGORIES:General,Sustainability Transformations in Africa
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