Posted on July 02, 2019
Globally 1.1 billion people lack access to water and 2.7 billion experience water scarcity for at least one month of the year. Agriculture takes up 60% of freshwater usage. A typical farmer spends a significant amount of time and money irrigating their plots. They often do not realise that they...
Posted on May 31, 2019
On the 30th of May 2019 fifteen students, enrolled for the agricultural risk management course, sat down to take this exam. Of the fifteen, 93% passed this week – the pass mark is 70%. Generally, the first attempt pass rate for the examination is less than 50%. The exceptional pass rate is...
Posted on May 31, 2019
The Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development is gaining momentum in becoming the regional centre of choice. To reach this objective, CEEPA provides quality degree and non-degree training, research...
Posted on May 31, 2019
In order to encourage the final year Agricultural Economics students to keep up to date with current economic affairs, a competition was held in one of the department’s final year modules. The competition required the students to forecast eight macro-economic variables every month. After...
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 April 18, 2019
Graduations are joyous occasions and are meant to be celebrated. On the 17th of April 2019, the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development celebrated forty-four graduates.
Posted on April 05, 2019
Two seasoned academics from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (NAS), Prof Jan Verschoor (Biochemistry) and Prof Wentzel Schoeman (Chemistry) recently gave their own unique flavour to the term ‘soapbox’.
Posted on March 05, 2019
In February 2019 Shampie Doko and Lunga Kumalo, two undergraduate students in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development received the news that they were each awarded a Standard Bank CSI bursary administered by the StudyTrust. These bursaries are awarded to students...
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 February 04, 2019
The second issue of the 2019 NAS T&L Bulletin was officially launched on 1 February 2019. According to Dr Rory Biggs from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, one of the editorial members of the Bulletin, "The T&L@NAS Bulletin aims to be a forum for sharing thoughts,...
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 November 07, 2018
The University of Pretoria congratulates Professor Sheryl Hendriks on her appointment as Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, which became effective 1 November.
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...
Posted on August 14, 2018
This was a clear message from the discussions at the triannual International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Vancouver, Canada. From the 28th of July to the 2nd of August the world’s agricultural economists got together at the 30th International Conference of Agricultural...
Posted on August 07, 2018
The World Congress for Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) is a flagship event organised every four years as the main scientific forum for scholars in the field. Dr Selma Karuaihe, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development at the...
Posted on July 03, 2018
Hunger is on the rise again worldwide, despite the rapid progress needed to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, which is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Currently, one person in three is...
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