Charles Petrus Laubscher has a position as an Associate Professor at the Department of Horticultural Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa. He completed his Undergraduate and master's in Horticulture and doctorate in technology at the same university. He has expertise in garden design, landscape management, plant nursery production, and consulting in community-based vegetable gardens and outreach programs in helping disadvantaged communities establish urban vegetable gardens using advanced technologies to increase food production. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the Beijing Forestry University (China), Tsitsin Main Moscow Botanical Garden, Academy of Sciences (Russia), University of Applied Sciences, Hochschule Osnabrück (Germany), Mendel University (Czech Republic), University of Bologna, (Italy), University of Florence (Italy), and the University of Catania (Sicily, Italy). He is also a member of the South African Nurseryman’s Association, the International Society for Horticultural Science, the Southern African Society for Horticultural Sciences, and the International Plant Propagator’s Society.