Posted on July 10, 2015
Prof Johann Kirsten, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development was recently appointed as the Editor of Agrekon, published by Taylor and Francis and indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. He succeeds Prof André Jooste who was Agrekon editor since 2010.
Posted on June 17, 2015
One of the key outcomes of the multimillion dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Pretoria's Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development in 2012 was to train more PhD students in agricultural economics to assist with better analysis...
Posted on May 26, 2015
The final year students in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development left the University premises at 06:00am heading to Bothaville, on May 15, 2015. A bus carrying 25 students were going to attend the NAMPO harvest day. Not even a severe traffic jam just before...
Posted on May 23, 2015
Dr Fanie Terblanche was appointed by the Minister of Science and Technology, Minister Naledi Pandor as councillor on the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP). Congratulations, Fanie! The Department and university are very proud of your contributions.
Posted on May 23, 2015
The global challenge of producing sufficient and nutritious food for an additional 2.4 billion people by the year 2050 using scarce resources, adapting to climate change, combating hunger and satisfying the sophisticated consumer needs is what every country in world agriculture must deal address....
Posted on March 17, 2015
The one million Euro AFGROLAND project was launched this week at a project team workshop. This ambitious project (African Food, Agriculture, Land and Natural Resource Dynamics), in the context of global agro-food-energy system changes was awarded through a competitive international bidding...
Posted on May 16, 2014
Reminder of the Tomlinson Memorial Lecture
Posted on April 24, 2014
The 26th AEASA Tomlinson Lecture will be held in Kwazulu Natal Province on 5 June 2014
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