Our specialists offer solutions to clients and have accumulated significant experience through their involvement in agri-business and related fields. Our specialists have extensive experience in research and project execution.
Doctor FERDI MEYER
Specialist – Agriculture policy and analysis
Qualifications
- Phd Agricultural Economics (UP)
- MSc Agricultural Economics (UP)
- BSc Agricultural Economics (Hons) (UP)
Services
- Commodity and supply chain modelling
- Scenario planning
- Risk analysis
- Consumer economics
Doctor FANIE TERBLANCHE
Specialist – Agricultural Extension
Qualifications
- BSc Agriculture: Animal Production (University of Pretoria – UP).
- B Inst Agrar (Hons) in Extension. (UP).
- M Inst Agrar in Agricultural Extension: The influence of group dynamics on the functioning of farmer groups. (UP).
- PhD in Agricultural Extension: Group functioning in Agricultural Development: The role of leadership. (UP).
- Professional accreditation: Registered with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP) as Professional Natural Scientist in Agriculture and Extension, Board member of the South African Society for Agricultural Extension, member of the SACNASP Council and National Research Foundation: NRF rated scientist.
Services
- Agricultural and extension research and services.
- Education and training, land reform and evaluation of projects.
- Non-linear processes and modelling.
Professor NIGEL BARKER
Specialist – Plant and Soil Sciences
Qualifications
- DPhil (Social Science Methods) – SU
- MPhil (Social Science Methods) – SU
- BA Honours (Psychology) – UNISA
- B (Town and Regional Planning) – UP
- Professional accreditation: Member of the Research Ethics Committees: CSIR.
Services
- Project management
- Editing and report writing
- Research planning and design
- Qualitative social science research
- Quantitative social science research (SPSS)
- Literature searches and reviews
- Research syntheses
Doctor HANNELIE HUMAN
Specialist – Zoology and Entomology
Qualifications
- B.Sc. (Honours) Entomology
- M.Sc. Entomology
- Ph.D. Entomology
- Professional accreditation: Registered as a Professional Natural Scientist with SACNASP (Number 400336/13), Member of the International COLOSS Network and SUPER-B Network.
Services
- Apiculture
- Evaluation of crop pollination success
- Informal and formal teaching
- Honey quality control
- Training veterinarians in bee pests and diseases identification
- Biological research
Professor ZENO APOSTOLIDES
Specialist – Agriculture
Qualifications
- BSc (Agric)
- BSc (Hons)
- MSc
- DSc
- Professional accreditation: Peer reviewer for several scientific journals.
Services
- Metabolomics – Experimental design and result interpretation.
- Purification of mg amounts of natural compounds.
- Analytical liquid chromatography.
- Scientific manuscript editing and peer review