Team SA wins 2017 IFAMA Case Study Competition

Posted on June 29, 2017

Melissa van der Merwe, a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at UP, did her Department proud at the recent International Food and Agribusiness Management Association Conference, by not only presenting results from her PhD in the academic track...

UP expert instrumental in international warehouse receipt project

Posted on June 26, 2017

Dr Andre van der Vyver from the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria (UP), who is also a USAID contracted and world renowned warehouse receipt expert, was instrumental in the introduction of a modern, sophisticated process by which...

Science has the power to boost farming in Africa. But a lot has to change

Posted on June 26, 2017

Professor Frans Swanepoel from the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, discusses the possibilities that science offers for the future of farming and food security in Africa.

UP joins worldwide research project to fight bacteria affecting tropical and subtropical crops

Posted on June 22, 2017

The University of Pretoria (UP) has become a partner in the TROPICSAFE project, an initiative to fight three economically important bacterial diseases of citrus plants, grapevines and palms.

Driving Change in Nutrition Policy Requires the Confluence of a Number of Key Elements

Posted on May 24, 2017

Getting multi-sectoral policy issues on the policy agenda and through the policy cycle requires a number of essential elements. The recent study investigated the drivers of change for micronutrient policies. The comparative review of three case studies of micronutrients policy processes in...

UP Post Doc takes opportunity to explore China's development strategies

Posted on May 19, 2017

Dr Nokuthula Vilakazi, a Post Doctoral Fellow with the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being recently participated in a rural development seminar in Beijing, China. The seminar demonstrated how rual development can harness the potential of rural areas ensuring these keep pace with the...

Leading UP food security expert appointed to international panel

Posted on May 16, 2017

Prof Sheryl Hendriks, Director of the University of Pretoria's Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being has been appointed to serve on the new Malabo Montpellier Panel.

Celebrating 90 years of excellence in Consumer Science

Posted on April 24, 2017

The Department of Consumer Science recently celebrated the official unveiling of their newly renovated food laboratories and the 90th anniversary of the Department at UP.