The services we supply, across southern Africa, include but are not limited to:
- Applied research in natural resources, environmental management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, agriculture, sustainable livelihoods and rural development
- Strategic and operational support for sectoral and multi-disciplinary implementation programmes
- Support of both public and private policy development
- Specialist studies across the spectrum of socio-ecological systems
- Environmental assessment and reporting at various scales
- The development of natural resource and agriculturally focused institutional and governance systems
- Land-use assessment and conservation planning
- Customised education, capacity development and training in all aspects of our work
- Developing and supporting the implementation of geographic, ecological and sectoral information management systems
- Innovative stakeholder engagement and consultation
- Monitoring of various environmental parameters.
Organisationally our work is arranged into a series of inter-linked thematic areas:
- Climate Action and Sustainability
- Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods
- Ecosystems
Themes are led by well-qualified and highly experienced professionals. In addition we are supported by a competent and experienced administrative team. We comprise a staff of 20 highly skilled professions and are located in a precinct of three historic homes surrounded by an indigenous garden adjacent to the campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. We achieve Tier 1 status under the new BBBEE codes.