Welcome to the Afromontane Research Unit:
A continental leader in African mountain research ...

Southern African mountains are among the least understood socio-ecological systems on earth, yet provide ecosystem services that are essential for economic, social, and political stability in the region. In a wide variety of domestic and international partnerships, the ARU undertakes single-disciplinary research projects through to transdisciplinary research programmes that speak to this agenda. The ARU thus actively engages in and promotes research on Southern African mountains in order to encourage a stronger science-policy-practice interface. The ARU currently has active collaborations across Southern Africa, which includes Angola, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.