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.