Posted on November 30, 2017
The first world conference on sorghum in over 30 years will be hosted jointly by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet of Kansas State University, USA, and the University of Pretoria (UP) in April 2018.
Posted on November 20, 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 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 21, 2017
The Department of Consumer Science at the University of Pretoria (UP) recently unveiled newly renovated food laboratories that will accommodate more students with better equipment.
Posted on September 15, 2017
Cape Town, South Africa will be the venue of the 2018 global sorghum conference, “Sorghum in the 21st Century: Food, Feed and Fuel in a Rapidly Changing World,” on April 9-12, 2018. The conference, the first of its kind in over 30 years, will see hundreds of participants from around...
Posted on August 23, 2017
A collaborative study involving local and international researchers has created an intervention strategy to help improve the diet and lifestyle of schoolchildren in South Africa.
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 August 07, 2017
Through her doctoral work with the Institute for Food Nutrition and Wellbeing at UP, Deborah Kupolati is helping a new generation eat healthier by developing a nutrition education programme for primary school teachers.
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
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.
Posted on June 22, 2017
The University of Pretoria (UP) has become a partner in the TROPICSAFE project, an initiative to fight three economically important bacterial diseases of citrus plants, grapevines and palms.
Posted on May 24, 2017
Getting multi-sectoral policy issues on the policy agenda and through the policy cycle requires a number of essential elements. The recent study investigated the drivers of change for micronutrient policies. The comparative review of three case studies of micronutrients policy processes in...
Posted on May 19, 2017
Dr Nokuthula Vilakazi, a Post Doctoral Fellow with the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being recently participated in a rural development seminar in Beijing, China. The seminar demonstrated how rual development can harness the potential of rural areas ensuring these keep pace with the...
Posted on May 16, 2017
Prof Sheryl Hendriks, Director of the University of Pretoria's Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being has been appointed to serve on the new Malabo Montpellier Panel.
Posted on April 20, 2017
The Department of Consumer Science recently celebrated the official unveiling of their newly renovated food laboratories and the 90th anniversary of the Department at UP.
Posted on April 09, 2017
Professor Sheryl Hendriks, Director of the University of Pretoria's Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being joined some 40 experts from more than 20 countries at the headquarters of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, in Halle, Germany during 2 - 5 April to compare and...
Posted on April 04, 2017
Itumeleng Magabane, a second-year MScAgric student in Food Science and Technology at the University of Pretoria was recently awarded the Brian Koeppen Memorial scholarship of the South African Association for Food Science and Technology (SAAFoST).
Posted on February 17, 2017
Over the past few years, global discussions on how to link agriculture and nutrition have moved to a more proactive approach – pondering how to make the entire food system nutrition sensitive. However, as food systems advance, they can also create unhealthy food environments that...
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