Research at Lupane

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

• Indigenous goat productivity and genetics through selective breeding
• Biodiversity for climate resilience, food and nutrition security
• Indigenous grain breeding
• Human-wildlife conflict
• Wastewater use and treatment
• Irrigation water management
• Indigenous small grains
• Biotechnology and Genomic Technology
• Value of Indigenous trees and grasses for food processing
• Water resources and management
• Biotechnology and advanced livestock breeding technologies
• Ecology (interaction of flora and fauna)

Faculty of Commerce

• Business ethics
• Corporate governance
• Economic growth, innovation and industrialisation
• Strategyic leadership and management
• Entrepreneurship and New business Development
• BIg Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Financial Engineering, Fiscal and Monetary PolicyFormulation and analysis
• Human Capital Development

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

• Dynamic Elliptical formation control of multiple Quadrotor UAV for cooperative Forest fire monitoring
• 3D printing filament extextruder for polymer based plastic reuse.
• AI-Based Tobacco Grading and Matching System.
• IoT-Based Smart Farming Monitoring System.
• Smart Precision Seeder for Smallholder Farmers.
• AI Chatbot and Virtual Assistants for Multilingual Customer Support.
• Alternative energy sources (wind, solar and biofuels)
• Agricultural Engineering.

Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences

• Human-wildlife coexistence
• Ecosystem restoration, and sustainable landscape connectivity.
• Climate change impacts, invasive species management and sustainable resource use
• Disease surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, waste management and the One Health approach
• Food security, indigenous crop diversity mapping, value addition, food product development and food safety innovations

Faculty of The Built Environment

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Peace building
• Gender mainstreaming and gender based violence
• Substance abuse and mental health
• Women and men’s health and disability
• Linguistic diversity and multilingualism
• Public policy and governance
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Inclusive education; social justice; curriculum and innovation
• Regions and economic competitiveness
• Natural resources; the environment; sustainable livelihoods and development
• Indigenous knowledge systems
• Climate change and resilience mainstreaming