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08 April 2020
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Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon
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The international response to the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a health security threat stimulated an international response that commenced with drastic, but localised actions in China, but responses rapidly manifested in more extreme measures in the rest of the world. Amidst international efforts imposing extraordinary national and international movement restrictions and a rush to find a medical cure, two questions arise. First, how does COVID-19 as a health security threat feature within the global security debate and second, how to explain the harsh responses that one observes.
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Sustainable Agriculture is bursting at its seams
2009-01-24
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The Master's degree in Sustainable Agriculture presented by the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development at the University of the Free State (UFS) is bursting at its seams this year and has the most students in the 16 years the programme has been presented. During the recent welcoming of the group of 70 students on the Main Campus in Bloemfontein are, from the left: Prof. Izak Groenewald, director of the centre, Ms Priscilla Pitsholo, teacher in agriculture from Amalinda in the Eastern Cape, Mr Manie Wessels, a farmer from Frankfort, Mr Dirk Coetzee, technical marketing advisor from Lichtenburg; front: Ms Monica Nkqayi, agricultural councellor from the Department of Agriculture in Adelaide, Eastern Cape.
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