Posted on May 22, 2019
Every year the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension, and Rural Development takes its final year Agricultural Economics students to the NAMPO Harvest Day in Bothaville. This year 24 students, along with their lecturers, enjoyed this great opportunity on 15 May 2019. The purpose of this...
Posted on May 07, 2019
On the 24th and 25th of April 2019, AgriSA held their commodity and corporate conference at Future Africa, Pretoria. The Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development had the opportunity to send five of their top students to attend this event; Hilda Lefophane (PhD),...
Posted on May 05, 2019
Prof Rashid Mekki Hassan received one of the highest honours in science by being elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS). On 30th April, the NAS announced the election of 100 new members and 25 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing...
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 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 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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