Posted on February 23, 2015
Research by Prof Mohammad Naushad Emmambux, associate professor at UP’s Department of Food Science, and his colleagues has shown that it is possible to modify high GI starch using fatty acids so that it becomes a low GI starch.
Posted on February 16, 2015
“Most problems in today’s society cannot be solved by a single discipline,” said Prof Sheryl Hendriks of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW).
Posted on September 29, 2014
Two PhD candidates and one MSc candidate from UP’s Institutional Research Theme (IRT) on Food, Nutrition and Well-being were selected for this prestigious profile supplement published by M&G.
Posted on September 16, 2014
The University of Pretoria (UP) will be one of the institutions collaborating in a series of projects representing the best ideas and strategies from around the world to address hunger and undernutrition in some of the world’s most unforgiving agricultural regions.
Posted on August 28, 2014
Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being students, benefitting from the BASF-Becker Underwood had the opportunity to give representatives from Becker Underwood, BASF and DAFF an update on the progress made with their research projects.
Posted on August 01, 2014
IFNuW acknowledges the importance of having accredited facilities and systems in the food industry to provide adequate food safety standards, and for this reason it has partnered with the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS).
Posted on June 17, 2014
Postgraduate students develop a magic bicuits
Posted on June 17, 2014
At the invitation of UP’s Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being and the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Prof Alders presented an insightful talk on village poultry, which is the poultry production system commonly found in rural areas and involves indigenous chicken genotypes.
Posted on April 01, 2014
University of Pretoria and University of Western Cape officially launched Centre of Excellence in Food Security
Posted on October 14, 2013
Prof Sheryl Hendriks, Director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being and associate professor of Food Security in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Rural Development and Agricultural Extension at the University of Pretoria is one of o
Posted on May 29, 2013
Prof Sheryl Hendriks, Director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW) at the University of Pretoria participated in May this year in the seventh meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) High Level Panel of Experts on Food
Posted on November 20, 2012
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and its partners recently announced that Christopher Manyamba from the University of Pretoria has been awarded a PhD dissertation research fellowship on the Women
Posted on November 13, 2012
Prof John Taylor from the Department of Food Science has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC). He also received a B1 NRF re-rating.
Posted on June 06, 2012
Just more than a week (28 May) after G8 leaders had renewed their shared commitment to global food security through the New Alliance for Food Nutrition, the largest group of food researchers anywhere in the world launched a collaborative platform at the U
Posted on April 24, 2012
The official launch of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being (IFNuW) will take place on Monday 28 May 2012 at the Graduate Centre and an address will be delivered by Mrs Sheila Sisulu, Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme.
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