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Momentum builds for One Health as South Africa advances national strategic framework

Momentum builds for One Health as South Africa advances national strategic framework

One Health in South Africa is advancing as stakeholders move to finalise the national strategic framework. Speaking at the recent engagement, Professor Wanda Markotter, One Health Research Chair at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, underscored the need for coordinated, cross-sectoral systems and highlighted the role of academia in supporting implementation.
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Professor Wanda Markotter reappointed as Future Africa One Health Research Chair

Professor Wanda Markotter has been reappointed as Future Africa’s One Health Research Chair for a second five-year term, strengthening transdisciplinary research, African collaboration and leadership in One Health across the continent.

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New generation of scientists needed for Africa’s food systems, says Future Africa experts

Africa’s food systems face urgent challenges. In a commentary published in the South African Journal of Science, Prof Frans Swanepoel and Dr Melody Mentz-Coetzee, affiliated with Future Africa, reflect on FSNet-Africa as a model for training new scientists to drive sustainable change.
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Future Africa welcomes UNU REACH-AFRICA Hub – A first for the continent

Future Africa at the University of Pretoria is proud to host the first United Nations University (UNU) Hub in Africa and the Global South. The UNU Hub will drive solutions to climate, agriculture, environment, and health challenges through African-led collaboration.
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UP named first UN University Hub in Africa and Global South

The United Nations University (UNU) marked a historic milestone with the official launch of its first UNU Hub in Africa and the Global South – the UNU Hub on Resilient Environment, Agriculture, Climate and Health for Africa (REACH-AFRICA) – on 23 July 2025 at the University of Pretoria (UP).
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Ambassador Delphine O discusses feminist foreign policy at Future Africa

Future Africa recently hosted Ambassador Delphine O, Ambassador-at-large and Secretary-General of the Generation Equality Forum at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for a guest lecture on the relevance of Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) in today’s global and digital context.
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Future Africa hosts STEM career exposure tour at UP for school learners

Future Africa, in collaboration with the National Zoological Garden’s ZooClub, hosted a three-day Youth in STEM (YiSTEM) Career Exposure Tour from 30 June to 2 July 2025. The programme introduced 25 high school learners to exciting career opportunities in health, veterinary, and agricultural sciences at the University of Pretoria, inspiring the next generation of STEM professionals.
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Future Africa hosts French Deputy Director for Global Affairs for guest lecture on shared global challenges

Future Africa hosted French Deputy Director for Global Affairs Jean-Sébastien Conty for a guest lecture exploring France’s contributions to addressing global challenges. The session highlighted international cooperation on climate action, health, food systems, and gender equality.
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‘We need a people’s science’ – Future Africa dialogue urges shift to African-centred sustainability thinking

Sustainability science must shed inherited assumptions and embrace African-centred approaches grounded in justice, imagination, and relational thinking. This was the message from Future Africa’s recent transdisciplinary dialogue, where Prof Lesley Green and Prof Maano Ramutsindela called for a new language of science rooted in African thought.
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The hidden violence of conservation and the case for socio-ecological reparations

Conservation is often viewed as a moral good, but speakers at a Future Africa panel revealed how its history in Africa is marked by dispossession, invisibility, and colonial violence. The discussion called for reparations that address intertwined ecological and human injustices.
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‘Africa’s climate future depends on homegrown, just solutions’ – experts at a recent Future Africa panel discussion

Africa must develop its own answers to the climate crisis or risk deepening existing inequalities. This call to action emerged during a panel discussion on equitable and just climate actions hosted by Future Africa in partnership with IRD-CNRS-CIRAD joint office in Southern Africa.
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Future Africa UP hosts art residency on bats and human–animal connection

Future Africa at the University of Pretoria (UP) welcomes its first artist-in-residence, Dr Nicola Grobler, whose work explores bats through the intersecting lenses of art, philosophy, science, and public engagement.
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Africa Week 2025 closing session calls for political agency, unity and strategic leverage

“Africa must confront not just what it lacks, but what it has.” This was the call from panellists at the closing plenary of Africa Week 2025, who challenged the continent to act with collective intent, draw on its strengths, and take ownership of its future on its own terms.
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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.
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