College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

Diepsloot open day

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The Department of Life and Consumer Sciences identified Diepsloot Combined Full Service School as a suitable school for their community engagement project in 2010 and the project officially began in

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Diepsloot World Health Day Celebration

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The Department of Life and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences celebrated the World Health Day for the second year with Diepsloot Combined School in Gauteng.

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One day without shoes

CAES staff members show off their bare feet in support of the One Day Without Shoes initiative

One Day Without Shoes is a day on which people spread awareness of the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child’s life by taking off their

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The uncertainty of water in a changing environment

From left: Prof Willie Nel (COD: Department of Environmental Sciences), Lerato Bapela (Department of Environmental Sciences), Samanta Stelli, (Rand Water), Thabo Masike (Department of Water Affairs) and Charles Makuwerere (Bembani Group) at the water colloquium

“There will be no global crisis because of physical scarcities of water. If there will be a crisis it will be because of poor water management.” This was the conclusion that the Asian Development Bank came to a decade ago. It is with this conclusion that International Water Day, held annually on 22 March is becoming more imperative with each passing year.

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2012 Livestock Health and Production Group (LHPG) congress in Stellenbosch

From left: Poppie Khoza (CAES), Ellen Mokoena (CC&M) and Vicky Lee-Shew (Western Cape Region)

The Western Cape Region, the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) and staff from the Department of Corporate Communication and Marketing (CC&M) participated in the 2012 Livestock Health and Production Group (LHPG) congress in Stellenbosch.

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