CNRES’ RESEARCH THEMES

1.0 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Research themes:
Integrated resource management and adaption for increase and sustainable crop production for food and nutritional securities under global environmental changes.

Research themes

Research themes:
• Environmental impact assessment;
• Environmental audit;
• Environmental protection;
• Integrated waste management;
• Impact of climate change;
• Land use practices and degradation;
• Integrated water resources, and
• Impact of conflict on environment, and environmental conflict.

Research themes
• Fish seed production and grow-out trials using different stocking densities and feed types;
• Improvements in the preservation and food safety of fish and fish products;
• Determination of heavy metal concentrations in fish and water;
• Impact of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture, and
• Management and conservation of fisheries resources in South Sudan.

Research themes of the department
• Ethno-botanical studies: medicinal and cultural uses plants;
• Non-woody forest products and their contribution to food security;
• Impact of climate change on forestry adaptation and mitigation strategies;
• Wetlands management and conservation;
• The important trees and shrubs of RSS: their ecology, uses, propagation and management;
• Agro-forestry practices: systems, productivities and prospect of improvement;
• Mapping of biodiversity hotspots of wetland species around the Sudd, and
• Deforestation and degradation of forests in the Republic of South Sudan.

Research themes
• The geochemical signatures of hydrothermal haloes as vectors to mineralization;
• The source (s) of hydrothermal fluids linked to ore deposits;
• Specialist knowledge in sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural geology, basin analysis petroleum systems and reservoir geology;
• Hydrocarbon energy research ranging from traditional to cutting edge, as well as the environmental effects of resource extraction on water and land use;
• Groundwater exploration in hard rock terrain using electrical resistivity method targeting fractures and weathered basement of Juba, and
• Subsurface basin analysis and reservoir characterisation to reservoir geophysics and energy policy.

Research Themes

• The research interest of the Department of Wildlife Sciences is widespread. It includes molecular ecology, conservation genetics, natural resources conservation, wildlife ecology, behavioural ecology, population dynamics, wildlife management, wetlands and wetland wildlife ecology, wildlife-habitat relationships modelling and analysis; wildlife-human interactions and implications for conservation and food security; as well as leadership and administration of natural resource. The department works with different animal taxa; arthropods, mammals (all sizes), birds, and herpes to fauna (lizards, amphibians, snakes, tortoises and turtles) as well as their habitats. Our team operates countrywide.