Grassroots Vol 22 No 2 | Page 58

NKABENG MZILENI
SANParks
Adaptive change for climate adaptation
MICHIEL SCHOLTZ
Agricultural Research Council API University of the Free State
An updated perspective on the contribution of extensive ruminant production to greenhouse gas emissions in SA
CAROLYN PALMER
Institute for Water Research , Rhodes University
Why is transdisciplinarity relevant for the future of grassland ecosystems ?
SIGRUN AMMANN
Western Cape Department of Agriculture
How pasture production in South Africa has evolved ; and has a new era started ? Lessons from practice and research
PAUL AVENANT
Department of Agriculture , Land Reform & Rural Development
Rangeland Science - back to the future
ANTHONY EGERU
Makerere University RUFORUM
Wished out : revisiting why pastoralists are invisible
TUESDAY , 26 JULY 2022
WEDNESDAY , 27 JULY 2022
THURSDAY , 28 JULY 2022
8h00
Climate change
8h00
Planted pastures I
8h00
Rangeland ecology & management I
Keynotes : Nkabeng Mzileni & Michiel Scholtz
Keynote : Sigrun Ammann
Keynote : Paul Avenant
10H15- 10h45
10H15- 10h45
57TH ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE GRASSLAND SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME OUTLINE
TEA BREAK
10h00- 10h30
TEA BREAK
10h15- 10h45
TEA BREAK
Poster Session 01 : Climate change ; Bush
encroachment & alien invasive plants ;
Poster Session 05 : Rangeland ecology &
Communal rangelands , land tenure and
10h00-
10h15-
management ; Livestock & game
land transformation
10h30
Poster Session 03 : Planted pastures
10h45
management
Bush encroachment & alien invasive
plants
10h30
Planted pastures II
10h45
Rangeland ecology & management II
10h45
Special Session : Delineation of high
Special Session : Unlocking regenerative
potential rangeland - methodologies and
12H15
Advances in methodology
11h45
grazing
11h45
philosophies
DISCUSSION
DISCUSSION
13h00-
13h00-
13h00-
14h00
LUNCH
14h00
LUNCH
14h00
LUNCH
14h00
Conservation & restoration
14h00
Feed & nutrition
14h00
Livestock & game management
Keynote : Carolyn Palmer
Keynote : Anthony Egeru
16h00-
15h45-
15h30-
16h30
TEA BREAK
16h15
TEA BREAK
16h30
TEA BREAK
16h00-
Poster Session 02 : Conservation &
15h45-
Poster Session 04 : Feed & nutrition ; Fire
15h30-
Poster Session 06 : Research Proposal
16h30
restoration
16h15
Ecology
16h30
Posters
16h30
Special Session : Rangelands & locusts
16h15
Fire ecology
DISCUSSION
DINNER
DINNER
GALA DINNER
GSSA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
BINGO !
AWARD CEREMONY