FSNet-Africa World Food Day Event

FSNet-Africa World Food Day Event

FSNet-Africa hosted the FSNet-Africa World Food Day event, from 13 to 14 October 2022 at the Future Africa Campus of the University of Pretoria. The theme for this year’s World Food Day event was “Finding pathways towards agroecological transitions in Africa“.

In case you missed the webinar, you can catch up on the Opening Session by clicking this link,  and the Panel Discussions by clicking on this link

The speaker profiles and presentations from the event can be accessed below:

Speakers and Facilitators

  DR TSHILIDZI MADZIVHANDILA

CEO: Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN).

 

  PROF. JULIAN MAY

Director: DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS), University of the Western Cape (UWC)

 

  DR EMMANUEL ABBEY

Consultant: African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)-Carnegie Data Benchmarking Project

 

  PROF. ALICE PELL

Professor Emerita: Animal Science, Cornell University

 

  MS JOYENE ISAACS

Chairperson: Agricultural Research Council (ARC), South Africa

 

  PROF. LISE KORSTEN 

Co-Director: DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence Food Security, University of Pretoria

 

PROF. ANNE TALLONTIRE 

Professor of Sustainability and Business, University of Leeds

 

 

 

  DR STELLAH MUKHOVI

FSNet-Africa mentor | Senior Lecturer: Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Nairobi

 

  MS VUTLHARI CHAUKE

CEO: VT Harvest | Winner: Agricultural Writers SA New Entrant to Commercial Farming of the Year (2021)

 

  PROF. CLAIRE QUINN

FSNet-Africa Co-Director, University of Leeds

 

  DR SELORM DORVLO

FSNet-Africa fellow, University of Ghana.

 

  DR ANTOINETTE ANIM-JNR

FSNet-Africa fellow, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

 

 

  DR BRIDGET BWALYA UMAR

FSNet-Africa fellow, University of Zambia

 

  DR MELODY MENTZ-COETZEE

FSNet-Africa Senior Researcher and Network Learning Lead, University of Pretoria