Latest News Archive
Please select Category, Year, and then Month to display items
08 April 2020
|
Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon
![]()
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.
Read more...
Prof. Frans Swanepoel appointed to ARC Board
2010-10-07
 |
| Prof. Frans Swanepoel. |
|
Prof. Frans Swanepoel, Senior Director: Research Development and Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development at the University of the Free State (UFS), has been appointed by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to the Board of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) of South Africa. Previously he served as Deputy Chairperson of the ARC Board. Prof. Swanepoel is currently participating in a review of global agricultural research where he acts as advisor and reviewer of the CGIAR system based at the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation in Rome. |