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...
Posted on October 20, 2020
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa commit resources to promote agricultural innovations. This is based on the assumption that rural livelihoods are mainly agricultural and that the innovations will increase agricultural production and household income. As resources come under pressure from...
Posted on October 16, 2020
Three internationally renowned researchers from UP's Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences - Professor Roumen Anguelov, Professor Andre Ganswindt and Professor Sheryl Hendriks - have been elected to the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
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