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College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences

Equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories that provide students with hands-on experiences to bridge theory and practice

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2025-10-21 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa hosts G20 Food Security Roundtable

The platform, which fostered critical dialogue between academia, government and industry, highlighted the power of research, innovation and policy integration in advancing sustainable agri-food systems and supporting South Africa's contribution to the global food security agenda.

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2025-10-14 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisan honoured for international impact in the sustainability field

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences' Prof Vhahangwele Masindi was recently named the 2025 Emerging Sustainability Leader Award winner by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation.

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2025-09-25 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Protea Women's captain obtains a cum laude degree from Unisa

Having recently joined the #CircleofExcellence at Unisa by obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences with cum laude, Laura Wolvaardt, captain of the Proteas Women’s cricket team, maintains that discipline and a well-balanced plan led to this achievement.

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2025-09-04 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Featured, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa colleges celebrate excellence in teaching and learning

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and the College of Science, Engineering and Technology recently hosted their impactful annual Teaching and Learning Festival.

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2025-08-12 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Facilitating specialist WIL opportunities for Nature Conservation students

Unisa's Nature Conservation students are getting rare, hands-on wildlife post-mortem experience in the university's Science Labs. Through creative collaboration, they are overcoming limited field opportunities to gain vital skills, which cannot be accessed through theory alone.

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2025-07-18 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Getting back up and trying again is what counts

Having written matric three times, Sizwe Andries Moloi was no stranger to adversity. He left those disappointments behind and recently graduated with a BSc Honours in Environmental Management at Unisa. This qualification places him in a favourable position to serve in positions in South Africa and on the global stage.

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2025-06-26 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisan awarded prestigious British Academy Equitable Partnerships funding

Prof Ashley Gunter, Acting Deputy Executive Dean of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded £29 300 to build on previous British Academy engagements and the AHRC-funded Equitable African-led partnership in Kenya and South Africa.

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2025-06-26 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Graduate Sciences, Featured, Featured, Research news, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisa PhD student seeks to protect human and environmental health

Over the years, the use of plastic food packaging has become a global cause of concern because of its ability to leach into food. Celia Muzeza’s study aims to contribute solutions for reducing phthalate pollution from wastewater treatment plants.

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2025-06-12 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Unisan honoured for excellence in biomedical science and research

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences' Prof Mkhize-Kwitshana recently received the prestigious Award for Excellence in the field of Medical Laboratory Sciences at the Mini Congress for Medical Laboratory Sciences.

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