The sixth Ukulinga Howard Davis Memorial Symposium will take place at the University's Ukulinga Research Farm in Pietermaritzburg on 22 and 23 May, with the theme of Sustainability and Innovative Technologies in Agriculture.

Guest speaker Professor Linda Godfrey, a Principal Scientist at the CSIR and Extraordinary Professor at North-West University will speak on “Rethinking the South African agriculture sector – The role of the circular economy”.

We encourage you to attend if you work or study within this area in academia, research, practice, civil society, farming organisations, processing, policymaking, and local government as the event speaks to enhanced sustainability to bolster food systems against threats that include climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, water scarcity and pollution, pesticide and herbicide resistance, loss of traditional knowledge, market pressures, and more.

The diverse programme will include discussions from climate change adaptation and mitigation to the circular economy, innovative technological advances, local and regional food systems, food loss and waste reduction, biological control, sustainable supply chains, digitisation and technology, big data, impact science, the water-energy-food nexus, food and nutrition security, and the science-policy interface.

RSVP here by 13 May: https://forms.office.com/r/FAZrgc9DsZ

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