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2022-04-11 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

Groundwater: Making the invisible visible

Speaking at a College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences event marking World Water Day 2022, experts from the Netherlands and United Kingdom unpacked issues around groundwater, which supplies half of all drinking water in the world. Of even greater importance is that rural water supply in Africa depends almost entirely on groundwater

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2022-03-29 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured

CAES shows off research infrastructure

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) hosted the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) officials at the Science Campus on 2 March 2022.

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2022-03-08 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

CAES explores biotech research partnership

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences recently hosted a team from 54gene, a precision medicine and genomics company that is based in Africa and managed mainly by Africans, with a view to future collaboration.

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2022-02-17 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured

CAES celebrating excellence

During the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences hybrid 2021 year-end function, Executive Dean, Prof Magano, thanked all staff members for their continued support and hard work. He also encouraged them to stay positive and to look back on how far everyone in the College had come during 2021.

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2021-12-02 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Human Sciences

Unisa grows footprints in Africa

The Unisa Marketing team embarked on an African marketing drive, and exhibited at the Windhoek Industrial and Agricultural Show, as part of student recruitment from the 24th September to the 1st October 2021. The Department of Institutional Advancement, the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, the College of Human Sciences and the College of Law, all represented Unisa at the exhibition.

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2021-11-23 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured

Celebrating World Food Day

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Department of Agriculture and Animal Health celebrated World Food Day on 26 October 2021, under the slogan “Our actions are our future. Better production, better nutrition, a better environment and better life.”

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2021-11-23 00:00:00.0 | Category: Lead, Featured, Geography

A decade of coastal governance in South Africa: livelihoods, resources and politics

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences of the Department of Geography hosted an African Scholar Lecture on 31 September. Dr Philile Mbatha presented a lecture titled "A decade of coastal governance in South Africa: livelihoods, resources and politics".

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2021-09-13 00:00:00.0 | Category: Featured

Science-based opportunities for smallholder livestock farmers in Africa

The Department of Agriculture and Animal Health of the College of Agriculture and Environment Sciences (CAES) hosted an African Scholar Lecture on 24 August 2021, under the theme “Science-based opportunities for smallholder livestock farmers in Africa”.

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2021-09-08 00:00:00.0 | Category: College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Featured, Corporate

CAES management team visits Unisa's Midlands region

Unisa's College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences recently visited the Midlands agriculture-rich region with a view to assessing the market and taking full advantage of the opportunities available.

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