| 4IR | Fourth Industrial Revolution |
| AAU | Association of African Universities |
| AAUN | Australia-Africa Universities Network |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AIS | Agricultural Innovation Systems |
| ARC | Australian Research Council |
| ARUA | African Research Universities Alliance |
| BRECR | Brain Re-Engineering Concept and Reimagination |
| CA | Collaborative Autoethnography |
| CHE | Council on Higher Education |
| CMEP | Collaborative Mathematics Education Project |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats |
| DHET | Department of Higher Education and Training |
| DoE | Department of Education |
| DoIT | Diffusion of Innovation Theory |
| DT | Digital Transformation |
| DTT | Digital Transformation Trends |
| ECA | Early Career Academic |
| ECMN | Early Career Mathematicians’ Network |
| ECR | Early Career Researcher |
| ECWA | Early Career Women Academics |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FSNet-Africa | Food Systems Research Network for Africa |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GSFN | Global Sustainable Futures’ Network |
| HBU | Historically Black University |
| HE | Higher Education |
| HEI | Higher Education Institution |
| HLPES | High Level Panel of Experts |
| HWU | Historically White University |
| IBMA | International Conference on Business Models in Agriculture |
| ICATAS | International Conference on Advanced Technology and Applied Sciences |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology |
| IFAD | International Funds for Agricultural Development |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IoTs | Internet of Things |
| Key Performance Assessment | |
| LEAP | Leadership Equity Acceleration Programme |
| MEMP | Mathematics Education Mentorship Programme |
| MSc | Master of Science |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organisation |
| NCTM | National Council of Teachers of Mathematics |
| NIHSS | National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| NMEC | National Mathematics Education Council |
| NMU | Nelson Mandela University |
| NPM | New Public Management |
| NRF | National Research Foundation |
| PA | Precision Agriculture |
| POPIA | Protection of Personal Information Act |
| PRDF | Partnership Research and Development Fund |
| PU s | Productivity Units |
| R&D | Research & Development |
| RIG | Research Information Gateway |
| RSA | Republic of South Africa |
| RTK | Real-Time Kinematic |
| SA | South Africa |
| SACE | South African Council for Educators |
| SADC | Southern African Development Community |
| SAFLII | Southern African Legal Information Institute |
| SAHRC | South African Human Rights Commission |
| SANHREC | South African National Council of Ethics for Health Research |
| SDG s | Sustainable Development Goals |
| SMME | Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises |
| SPU | Sol Plaatje University |
| STEM | Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics |
| SUN | Stellenbosch University |
| TPMP | Transformation of the Professoriate-Mentoring Programme |
| TRC s | Transformative Research Collaborations |
| UCT | University of Cape Town |
| UJ | University of Johannesburg |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
| UNICEF | United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund |
| UNSW | University of New South Wales |
| University of Pretoria | |
| WFF | World Food Forum |
| WFP | World Food Programme |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| Wits | University of the Witwatersrand |
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