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Wayne Truter is appointed as a Full Research Professor at the University of the Free State and is Executive Manager of the GREEN FUTURES HUB. He is also the Chairman of the Executive Board and Scientific Committee of the FPLRI Research, Technology and Innovation Institute. His main field of specialization is to understand the interrelationships between soil, vegetation, water, livestock and wildlife in the agricultural discipline and the discipline of land regeneration of mined and disturbed agricultural land. He has spent 25 years conducting research and evaluating forage, pasture and livestock production in land and community regeneration programmes and rehabilitated land management systems. This is in addition to establishing environmentally and economically acceptable methods of regenerating disturbed areas, by re-vegetating these areas with selective forages and pastures and other industrial crops, to improve the agricultural potential of degraded areas to be utilized for productive, sustainable and regenerative land management systems.