Current projects
The following is a list of projects ASSET Research is currently either conducting or supporting:
Economics of Restoration in partnership with SAEON
Bioscape - Impacts of Invasive Alien Species on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
Conservation agriculture projects:
- Ottosdal: Farmer innovations in Conservation Agriculture (CA) systems for sustainable crop intensification in semi-arid, sandy soil conditions, North West Province
- Sandy Soils Development Committee (SSDC)
- Determining the Carbon Footprint of different maize farming systems within the summer rainfall crop production area in South Africa
- Quantitative research support to the Conservation Agriculture Smallholder Farmer Innovation Programme KwaZulu-Natal
- Participatory systems research on conservation agriculture in the Maluti region
- Participatory systems research on conservation agriculture in the Mpumalanga Highveld region
Completed CA projects
- Reitz and Vrede: The promotion of conservation agriculture in the North-Eastern Free State
- Bergville: Conservation Agriculture Farmer Innovation Programme for smallholders in upper catchment areas of the Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal
- KwaZulu-Natal Midlands: Conservation Agriculture Farmer Innovation Programme for smallholders in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal
- Southern KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape: Conservation Agriculture Farmer Innovation Programme for smallholders in the upper catchment areas of the Drakensberg, North Eastern Cape and Southern KwaZulu-Natal
- Carbon Footprint: Western Cape Winter Cereal Region
Completed projects
- Restore the Kuils river, Revitalise its people
- Monitoring impacts of global change on ecosystem services
- The full cost of the siltation of dams in South Africa
- Sustainable farming as a viable option for enhanced food and nutritional security and a sustainable productive resource base
- The financing mechanisms associated with achieving green drop rating
- Determining the economic risk/return parameters for developing a market for ecosystem goods and services following the restoration of natural capital: a system dynamics approach
- Environmental and Resource Economics Training
- An investigation into the effect of an electricity generation tax on the economy of South Africa (National Treasury, Development Network Africa)
- In-Field Rainwater Harvesting and Water Conservation Techniques: Assessing the Impact of Ten Years of WRC-funded Research in Thaba Nchu (Water Research Commission)
- Investigation of the positive and negative consequences associated with the introduction of low-P detergents (Institute of Natural Resources)
- Develop a generic model to assess the cost associated with eutrophication in South Africa and apply it to the Vaal River (Institute of Natural Resources)
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