Department
Soil and Crop and Climate Sciences
SOIL CROP AND CLIMATE SCIENCES
Office
Agriculture Building: Block 10 1.G624
Institution & Qualification: Wageningen University and Research
PhD Candidate
Institution & Qualification: University of the Free State
MSc Agric.: Soil Sciences
Institution & Qualification: University of the Free State
BSc Agric. Honours: Soil Sciences
Institution & Qualification: University of the Free State
BSc Agric.: Agronomy and soil sciences
Academic achievements: 2nd New voices Symposium of Cereal Science & technology-SA (CST-SA) (First runner up at MSc level 2017)
Grad Star top 100 students’ awardee (Obtained in 2016)
Golden key membership (Obtained in 2012)
Professional bodies: South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP) Pr.Sci.Nat. :116744
Soil Science Society of South Africa (SSSSA)
- Mathinya, V.N., Van Rensburg, L.D., Mavimbela, S.S.W., Barnard, J.H. (2019) Malt barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Water use and grain yield response to saline irrigation under shallow groundwater table conditions. Irrig. & Drain., DOI: 10.1002/ird.2389
- VN Mathinya, JH Barnard, ZA Bello & E van der Watt (2021) Response of malt barley grain quality characteristics to increasing irrigation water salinity, South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 38:2, 159-170, DOI: 10.1080/02571862.2021.1888391
- V. Ralph Clark, Geofrey Mukwada, Melissa Hansen, Sam Adelabu, Grey Magaiza, Aliza le Roux, Emile Bredenhand, Patricks Voua Otomo, Sandy-Lynn Steenhuisen, Angelinus Franke, Johan van Tol, Neo Mathinya, and Rodwell Makombe (2021) The Afromontane Research Unit: Driving Connections and Capacity Building for the Sustainable Development of Southern African Mountains. Mountain Research and Development, 41:2, 1–5
- Mathinya, N.V.; Clark, V.R.; van Tol, J.J.; Franke, A.C. Resilience and Sustainability of the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountain System: A Case Study on the Upper uThukela Catchment. In Human-Nature Interactions: Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes; Misiune, I., Depellegrin, D., Egarter, V.L., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, Switzerland, 2022; pp. 155–167
- VN Mathinya, AC Franke, GWJ Van De Ven, KE Giller (2022) Productivity and constraints of small-scale crop farming in the summer rainfall region of South Africa. Outlook on Agriculture 51 (2), 139-154
- Mathinya V. N., Franke A. C., van de Ven G. W. J., Giller K. E. (2023) Can small-scale farming systems serve as an economic engine in the former homelands of South Africa? Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 7, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1222120
Sustainable intensification of small-scale farming in South Africa.
Farming systems analysis
Yield gaps
Soil Water quality
Cereal grains
Soil physical properties
Sustainable agriculture
Mountain communities
AGRI 1534 (Practical classes)
SCCS 2684