Academic title
Associate Professor
E-mail:
wayne.twine@wits.ac.za

Twine, Wayne

Wayne Twine is an Associate Professor of ecology in the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences in the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in resource ecology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2009), a Masters degree in resource conservation biology from the University of the Witwatersrand (1995), and a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in zoology and botany from the same university (1993). He has over 15 years of research experience in human-environment relationships in rural South Africa, and is particularly interested in rangeland ecology, rural livelihoods, sustainable resource use, community based natural resource management, resilience, and socio-ecological systems.

Publications
Investigating the sensitivity of household food security to agriculture-related shocks and the implication of social and natural capital
Gender Differences in Climate Change Risk, Food Security, and Adaptation: A Study of Rural Households’ Reliance on Agriculture and Natural Resources to Sustain Livelihoods
Investigating the Sensitivity of Household Food Security to Agriculture-related Shocks and the Implication of Informal Social Capital and Natural Resource Capital
Poor rainfall, crop failure and food shortages: How rural farm households use nature, family, neighbors and friends to cope
People | 6 June 2013