Africa Week 2025 at UP opens with call for justice, innovation and unity

Posted on May 27, 2025

PRETORIA – Africa Week 2025 opened at the University of Pretoria (UP) on Africa Day, 25 May, with a call for bold, cross-sectoral collaboration to reimagine the continent’s future. The biennial summit, hosted at Future Africa, UP’s pan-African platform for collaborative...

Handbook focuses on better policies around SDGs

Posted on November 01, 2024

Achieving food security is increasingly about getting food systems to function right. The concept, which cuts through all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has evolved in recent years, along with policies and programmes needed to attain it by 2030.

UP to co-lead new African-German Centre for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems and Applied Agricultural and Food Data Science

Posted on October 29, 2024

UP has been named a co-lead of the new African-German Centre for Sustainable & Resilient Food Systems & Applied Agricultural & Food Data Science, which is set to focus on research training & knowledge sharing in food systems & data science across Africa.

New research cluster aims to transform Africa’s food systems – amidst growing challenges

Posted on October 21, 2024

The University of Pretoria has launched the Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence on Sustainable Food Systems (CoRE-SFS) to address critical challenges facing Africa's agricultural landscape. With rapid population growth and climate change threatening food production, this initiative aims...

Prof Reyers highlights progress linking environment and development issues despite enormous challenges

Posted on May 15, 2024

Prof Belinda Reyers, Professor of Sustainability Science in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, has spent the past five years working with the team behind the UN Human Development Report as a member of their Advisory Group.

Agriculture training in South Africa badly needs an overhaul. Here are some ideas

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.

Science has the power to boost farming in Africa. But a lot has to change

Posted on June 26, 2017

Professor Frans Swanepoel from the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, discusses the possibilities that science offers for the future of farming and food security in Africa.