A solar-powered floodlight has been installed at a Wits Rural Knowledge Hub waterhole. It fades in to avoid scaring game & can be activated by wifi. It's based on Picogrid technology developed in Wits University School of Electrical & Information Engineering

Joan Mavrandonis Gear, passionate advocate for the disenfranchised and co-founder of the Wits Rural Facility (WRF), passed away in her beloved Lowveld (1947-2022). For more information on Joan's life and her role in establishing the WRF, please got to wits.ac.za/alumni/obituar…

Savanna ecology research at "grass roots level" at Wits Rural Wits Rural Knowledge Hub - WiRKH

Wits Rural Knowledge Hub Wits Rural Knowledge Hub - WiRKH welcomes University of Edinburgh Principal & Vice-chancellor, Prof Peter Mathieson, and his team to the Wits Rural Campus as part of their visit to Wits University

IPBES @ WRC: Shizuka Hashimoto, co-chair of ipbes task force on scenarios and models opens workshop on catalysing #NatureFuturesFramework at Wits Rural Campus, Wits University

The ipbes task force on scenarios and models enjoying a bush walk at the Wits Rural Campus, Wits Rural Knowledge Hub - WiRKH Wits University

OSUN CORUSUS Project Bridges Research, Mobility and Curriculum Toward Rural Sustainability: Central European University shar.es/afAd21

The Wits Rural Knowledge Hub, partnering with Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Region and SAEON, will be hosting a Science for Society Symposium at the Wits Rural Campus as part of National Science Week.

Wits Rural Campus has established a solar farm consisting of a 148.2 KW plant that generates clean renewable energy.

Wits Rural is humming this week! We welcome groups from Wits schools of Physics, Physiotherapy, Public Health, and Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, as well Queen Mary University of London, and Kruger-to-Canyons Biosphere

Food security is improving in rural Mpumalanga Province. Featured research: Patterns and trends in household food security in rural Mpumalanga Province, South Africa tandfonline.com/eprint/D3ZAGQU…

Our latest paper is out: Non-timber forest products as poverty traps: Fact or fiction? authors.elsevier.com/c/1iAB84y2D1gQ…

Wits Rural Campus is hosting Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies, run jointly by Sante Fe Institute & Indian institute of Technology. Students from Africa & Asia are exposed to newest methods, models, & frameworks for thinking about economics & governance.

Thirty years of rural health research: South Africa’s Agincourt studies offer unique insights theconversation.com/thirty-years-o… via The Conversation Africa Wits University

SAEON (SAEON) Savanna Node ran an environmental science camp for 15 local grade 11 learners at the Wits Rural Campus this weekend. The learners gained hands-on experience in collecting & analysing biodiversity data, and the Wits University Rural Campus was the ideal location.

We are proud to announce the publication of this paper by the Bob Scholes Knowledge Synthesis working group supported by WiRKH: Contextualising urban sanitation solutions through complex systems thi... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Call for proposals: funded knowledge synthesis endeavour (Wits University)

Taking Astronomy to Acornhoek: Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists Wits University linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

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R3.5 million investment towards skills for rural entrepreneurs