Posted on July 03, 2018
University of Pretoria (UP) academic, Dr Melissa van der Merwe and students Jodie Vosloo and Paige Bowen were part of two teams that excelled in a case study competition at the recent International Food and Agribusiness Management Association’s (IFAMA) Conference.
Posted on June 20, 2018
Dr Colleta Gandidzanwa, a researcher in the Department of Agricultural Economics Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria, attended the conference of the International Consortium on Applied Bio-economy Research (ICABR) at the World Bank in Washington DC from 12 to 15 June...
Posted on June 13, 2018
Khanimamba Hlungwani, a postgraduate student in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria (UP), and her team mates from other universities emerged as the winners of the prestigious 2018 Agbiz Student Case Study Competition.
Posted on June 11, 2018
On the 7th and 8th of June 2018, Dr Tracy Davids, a researcher at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, and manager of the Bureau of Food and Agricultural Policy’s commodity markets division attended the annual World Outlook Conference in Spiez,...
Posted on May 16, 2018
I would highly recommend that each student pursuing a degree in Agriculture attend these excursions to the experimental farm hosted by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development. Natalie Portman (Star Wars, Thor) once said: “I do not like studying – I...
Posted on May 09, 2018
The 2018 autumn graduation ceremony marked a record harvest of graduates for the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development. The Department graduated eight PhD students; six in Agricultural Economics, one in Rural Development and one in Environmental Economics.
Posted on February 27, 2018
For analysts and academics alike, the world of development policy changes quickly. Decision-makers are faced with increasing complexity and a growing list of elements that have to be taken into account in policy reform and design.
Posted on February 20, 2018
Dr Magalie Bourblanc, a senior research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, at the University of Pretoria recently warned South Africans to use our increasingly scarce water resources sparingly.
Posted on January 16, 2018
Upon her recent return from the Ronald Coase Intuitional Economics workshop in Bogota, Colombia, Melissa van der Merwe, lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development summed her experience up as: “Never in my life have I had the level of intellectual...
Posted on November 30, 2017
The twelfth annual shared-facility training programme for the Collaborative Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE) at the University of Pretoria (UP), brought together students from 16 African universities, and has ranked UP as one of the best institutions engaged in the...
Posted on November 17, 2017
Prof Bernard Slippers has officially been appointed as Professor and Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria from 1 January 2018.
Posted on November 14, 2017
Not only did the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP) celebrate a hundred years of agriculture at a prestigious event earlier this month, but it also recognised Dr Johan van Zyl, former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of UP and current CEO of African...
Posted on November 13, 2017
According to Prof Frans Swanepoel, one of the major reasons that the agricultural sector is currently unable to realise its full potential is the fact that education and training practices is in need of a very serious overhaul.
Posted on November 03, 2017
Prof Elna Buys has been appointed as the Head of the newly merged Department of Consumer and Food Science at the University of Pretoria from 1 November 2017.
Posted on October 26, 2017
A number of African countries are taking bold action to tackle malnutrition. They have successfully implemented a range of actions that have started to improve nutrition for all.
Posted on September 27, 2017
The Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development had a “good harvest” at the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa’s annual conference held in Durban between 19 and 21 September 2017. Not only was more than a third of the accepted oral...
Posted on August 23, 2017
South Africa has a tradition of evidence-based decision making, grounded in the findings of national surveys. But many of them remain a largely untapped resource for understanding the contextual experience of food insecurity.
Posted on July 28, 2017
We at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development are proud to say that one of our colleagues, Dr Magalie Bourblanc, was part of the Gauteng ladies team that won the annual inter-provincial indoor volleyball tournament. This tournament, organized by Volleyball...
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...
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...
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