Posted on July 27, 2018
Prof Pell explained that the ‘Zero Hunger’ goal was not just to end world hunger but also to achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. “Food security is when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and...
Posted on July 20, 2018
Research led by scientists at the University of Pretoria (UP) has shed light on an evolutionary arms race with a twist. This research, conducted by Morgan J. Martin, a PhD student from UP has found that the small Heaviside’s dolphins (Cephalorhynchus heavisidii) selectively switch between...
Posted on July 19, 2018
A study by a University of Pretoria researcher into the ablution habits of white rhinos in the Hluhluwe iMfolozi Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, has revealed that these animals use their place of defecation to communicate with each other and take decisions that can affect their ecology.
Posted on July 17, 2018
Prof Roger Deane from the Department of Physics represented UP at the launch of the MeerKAT radio telescope, inaugurated by Deputy President David Mabuza in the Northern Cape. Built and operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), the MeerKAT comprises 64 radio dishes, each...
Posted on July 11, 2018
How many people can say they have had a planet has been named after them and that they have published internationally, all before reaching the age of 21? Bernard Smit, a final-year microbiology student at the University of Pretoria (UP), recently published an article in the international journal...
Posted on July 05, 2018
The UP-SUNCOI (UP-SU Community Outreach Initiative) project was launched.
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...
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 15, 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
Profs Namrita Lall, Xiaohua Xia, Mmantsae Diale, Kevin Wall and the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC), headed by Prof Tiaan de Jager are category finalists in this year’s prestigious National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards.
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 June 07, 2018
Prof Hettie Schönfeldt, Director of the African Research Universities Alliance Centre of Excellence for Food Security led by the University of Pretoria (UP), and an associate of the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Well-being, has won the bid for the first five-year cycle of the Department of...
Posted on June 05, 2018
Prof Mmantsae Moche Diale, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Pretoria (UP), and leader of the Solar Energy Collection and Conversion Research Group, has been awarded a prestigious Research Chair in Clean and Green Energy by the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Posted on June 04, 2018
Prof Howard Apsan, Director of Environmental, Health, Safety and Risk Management at The City University of New York, recently delivered a guest lecture on ‘Community and sustainability’, at the University of Pretoria’s Sustainable Development Goals Lecture Series.
Posted on May 30, 2018
More than two months have passed since the World Health Organisation confirmed that the listeriosis outbreak in SA was the biggest globally, and consumers in the country were cautioned about the dangers of consuming contaminated products.
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 May 03, 2018
Zak Claasen studied in the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and has completed a BSc in Genetics with distinction. This is an extraordinary feat for any student, but even more so because Zak is blind.
Posted on April 26, 2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology wins “Brian Sharp Award” at the 7th MIM Pan African Malaria conference
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