Posted on March 05, 2019
In February 2019 Shampie Doko and Lunga Kumalo, two undergraduate students in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development received the news that they were each awarded a Standard Bank CSI bursary administered by the StudyTrust. These bursaries are awarded to students...
Posted on March 04, 2019
The world’s inaugural Sustainability and Development Conference (SDC) was held on November, 9 -11 2018 in Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, United States (US). Although the selection process for research presented at the SDC was extremely competitive (2200 abstracts submitted), we are...
Posted on March 04, 2019
The world’s inaugural Sustainability and Development Conference (SDC) was held on November, 9 -11 2018 in Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, United States (US). Although the selection process for research presented at the SDC was extremely competitive (2200 abstracts submitted), we are...
Posted on February 04, 2019
The second issue of the 2019 NAS T&L Bulletin was officially launched on 1 February 2019. According to Dr Rory Biggs from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, one of the editorial members of the Bulletin, "The T&L@NAS Bulletin aims to be a forum for sharing thoughts,...
Posted on November 13, 2018
Dr Colleta Gandidzanwa, a researcher in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria, had the unique opportunity to visit Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in October, having been selected earlier this year as a 2018 fellow for the...
Posted on November 07, 2018
The University of Pretoria congratulates Professor Sheryl Hendriks on her appointment as Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, which became effective 1 November.
Posted on October 25, 2018
For the third year in a row hunger is rising across the world. And, as a recent report by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation shows, the situation is worsening in most regions in Africa. Almost 21% of the continent’s population of 1,216 billion is undernourished....
Posted on August 20, 2018
The Bureau for Food and Agricultural (BFAP) policy was established in 2004, as a research program within the department of Agricultural economics at the University of Pretoria. BFAP celebrates it 15th year of existence, and the 15th edition of their annual baseline outlook was launched on 15...
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