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Africa Week 2025 at UP opens with call for justice, innovation and unity

Africa Week 2025 at UP opens with call for justice, innovation and unity

Africa Week 2025 opened at the University of Pretoria (UP) on Africa Day, 25 May, with a call for bold, cross-sectoral collaboration to reimagine the continent’s future. The biennial summit, hosted at Future Africa, UP’s pan-African platform for collaborative research, brings together African and global...
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Call for Abstracts: TFCA’s Symposium

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,
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Newsletter: One Health Focus – April 2025

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.
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Future Africa to lead science mission for Mapungubwe revival

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.
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Living Heritage: Future Africa’s Indigenous and Orphan Crops Collection

Future Africa celebrates Heritage Month with its Indigenous and Orphan Crops Collection, preserving diverse food plants and promoting sustainable food futures.

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Future Africa Convenes Final Workshop to Develop Strategic Frameworks for Future Earth Africa Hub

Future Africa, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) recently hosted the final workshop of the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)
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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
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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).
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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.
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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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Southern Africa’s TFCAs

Call for Papers: Symposium on the Dynamics and Impacts of Borders in Southern Africa’s TFCAs

Future Africa in partnership with the University of Botswana invites submissions for a symposium on the dynamics and impacts of borders in Southern Africa’s Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs)...
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pursuit of SDGs

Future Africa seminar examines how political interests impact the pursuit of SDGs

Future Africa hosted a seminar featuring Professor Dan Banik, discussing how political interests hinder progress toward achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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African science leaders

African science leaders gather to celebrate 10 years of growth

The Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) recently marked a significant milestone, celebrating its tenth anniversary at Future Africa.
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Sustainable Food Systems and Data Science in Africa

Future Africa welcomes UKUDLA: New African-German centre for Sustainable Food Systems and Data Science in Africa

The University of Pretoria (UP) will co-lead the African-German Centre for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems and Applied Agricultural and Food Data Science, known as UKUDLA. This centre will be part of the Future Africa Research Chair in Sustainable Food Systems...
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transform Sustainable Food Systems

New Africa-Europe Research Cluster launched to transform Sustainable Food Systems

The University of Pretoria (UP) recently launched the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence on Sustainable Food Systems (CoRE-SFS), a transformative initiative addressing Africa’s pressing agricultural challenges, particularly those brought on by climate change and rapid population growth, which place increasing strain on crop and livestock production.
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