Dr Selma Tuemumunu Karuaihe
Acting Head of Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development and Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics
Phone: +27 12 420 4659
Email: [email protected]
Research Focus: Natural resource and environmental economics, mainstream economics and development issues, interest in sustainable development.
If not a Resource Economist, I would be a COMMUNITY ACTIVIST.
Dr Danie Jordaan
Snr Lecturer in Agricultural Economics
Phone: +27 12 420 5739
E-mail: [email protected]
Research Focus: Agricultural supply chain analysis, agribusiness management, agro-processing, strategy and management development, expert quantum reports.
If not an Agricultural Economist, I would be a KAROO FARMER.
Dr Moraka Makhura
Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Economics
Collaborative Centre on Economics of Agricultural R&D (UP ARC)
Phone: +27 12 420 5022
Email: [email protected]
Research Focus: Agriculture and rural finance; food security and rural livelihoods; commercialization and agricultural development; economics of agricultural research and development; multistakeholder partnerships & institutional analysis.
If not an Agricultural Economist, I would be a RADIO ANNOUNCER.
Dr Odirilwe Selomane
Senior Lecturer
Phone: +27 12 420 5738
E-mail: [email protected]
Dr Herbert Ntuli
Lecturer in Agricultural Economics 
Phone: +27 12 420 3253
E-mail: [email protected]
Research Focus: Environmental valuation, natural resource management, transboundary resources, CBNRM, energy, water, forestry, wildlife, fisheries, institutions, governance, agriculture and rural development.
If not an Agricultural Economist, I would be a MATHEMATICIAN.
Dr Wegayehu Fitawek
Part-time Lecturer in Agricultural Economics and Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone: +27 12 420 4623
E-mail: w[email protected]
Research Focus: Food systems, food security, food policy, agricultural policy and impact analysis.
If not an Agricultural Economist, I would be a BUSINESS WOMAN.
Lecturer in Agricultural Extension
Phone: +27 12 420 3249
E-mail: [email protected]
Research Focus: Community and rural development, human and organisational behaviour change, smallholder and rural resource management, and extension programme planning and management.
If not an Agricultural Extensionist, I would be a CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST.
Dr Christiaan Mostert
Part-time Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Economics
Phone: +27 12 420 4084
E-mail: [email protected]
If not an Agricultural Economist, I would be visiting weird and wonderful remote places.
Lecturer
Phone: +27 12 420 3252
E-mail: [email protected]
Research Focus: Agribusiness, agricultural risk management and finance, supply chain finance and alternative finance models, and crop insurance and derivatives.
If not an Agricultural Economist, I would be a FARMER.
Dr Damien Jourdain
Research Fellow in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics / Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
Phone: +27 12 420 5768
E-mail: [email protected]
Research focus: Water economics and governance, valuation of natural resources, agro-environmental policies, farm modeling, choice modeling
If not an Agricultural and Natural Resource Economist, I would be a PROFESSIONAL GOLFER.
Prof Charles Machethe
Extraordinary Professor in Agricultural Economics
E-mail: [email protected]
Research Focus: Agricultural and rural development, agricultural and rural finance, agricultural cooperatives, agricultural development policy, land reform, the economics of smallholder irrigation, and farm/ non-farm linkages.
If not an Agricultural Economist, I would be a PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYER.
Prof Thomas Lundhede
Extraordinary Professor in Environmental Economics
E-mail: [email protected]
Research Focus: Natural resources and environmental economics, forest economics, and valuation of non-market services.
Prof Rashid Hassan
Emeritus Professor
Research Focus: Environmental economics
Ms Neo Phalatse
Postgraduate Coordinator
Office: Agricultural Annex Room 3-24
Phone: +27 12 420 5768
E-mail: [email protected]
Ms Yvonne Samuels
Departmental Administrator
Office: Agricultural Annex Room 3-37
Phone: +27 12 420 3246
E-mail: [email protected]
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