Posted on July 08, 2021
All students are invited to submit a short academic article / academically referenced opinion piece for publication in our online writing platform, Alternate Horizons.
Posted on July 04, 2021
In the interest of promoting public education on food issues, particularly with respect to Food Safety, Food Additives and Food Processing, SAAFoST has established two Meritorious Awards for Food Science Journalism to recognise those local journalists whose reports are objective and...
Posted on June 29, 2021
In partnership with the Academic Impact Initiative of the United Nations Department of Global Communications, the 1st International Academic Conference on the Sustainable Development Goals - "Why it Matters" As Part of the Decade of Action will be held 5-7 October, 2022 in the city of Orem, Utah,...
Posted on June 29, 2021
We chatted to Valiant Odhiambo about the research that he conducted for his Masters that formed part of the recently published paper, “The effect of an objective weighting of the Global Food Security Index's natural resources and resilience component on country scores and ranking”.
Posted on May 13, 2021
Research Fellowship initiated by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to support a total of thirteen (13) Early-Career Research Fellows to undertake globally competitive research at the ARUA Centres of Excellence (CoEs).
Posted on May 04, 2021
Prof Sheryl Hendriks from the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, is working as part of the UN Food Systems Summit Scientific Group in the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit that is taking place later this year.
Posted on March 24, 2021
The acquisition of large-scale agricultural land has increased since the global food and fuel price crisis of 2007/8. Africa is the leading targeted continent for large-scale land acquisitions in the global south. In most sub-Saharan African countries, the purposes of land acquisitions are for...
Posted on November 11, 2020
The increased demand from ‘techno savvy’ student population requires a change in approach to learning, thus driving blended learning. I started using blended learning techniques in a module on Environmental and Resource Economics for the Collaborative Masters Programme in Applied and...
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