Date: Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Time: 13:00 – 14:00
Venue: Lecture Theatre (0011), Mopani Building, NMMU George Campus, Saasveld
Speaker: Mr Johan Jordaan, Senior Lecturer, Agricultural Management
RSVP: Marketing & Corporate Relations, NMMU George
alicia.maclean@nmmu.ac.za by 8 October 2012 (044 801 5081)
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About the speaker
Senior Agricultural Management Lecturer at NMMU George, Johan Jordaan, is an agricultural economist with an interest in Farm Business Management; Strategic Management; Entrepreneurship and Environmental/Resource Economics.
He completed his undergraduate degree in Agriculture (B.Sc. Agric) at the University of the Free State, followed by a B.Sc. Agric (Hons) from the University of Pretoria; and a B. Admin (Hons) and MBA – both from the University of Stellenbosch.
His current research focuses on Financial, Economic and Entrepreneurial issues in agro-based enterprises.
Jordaan has delivered several conference papers in the past year. One of the latest papers delivered at the 7th Conference of the Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture in Beauvais, France, in June 2011 (Jordaan, JW and Taylor, GJ. 2011) was titled: Innovation at the local level: experiences of a South African university in the transfer of knowledge and technology to rural and peri-urban agricultural enterprises through business incubation.
Jordaan has authored or co-authored numerous academic articles. Recent examples include the following:
Jordaan, JW and Grobler, HJF, 2011. Farmer support and extension to land reform farms in the Central Karoo - Part 1: a baseline survey of farm potential, farmer profiles and farm management knowledge and practices. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension 39 (1): 35-44.
Jordaan, JW and Grobler, HJF, 2011. Farmer support and extension to land reform farms in the Central Karoo - Part 2: a baseline assessment of farm-level economic viability. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension 39 (1): 45-54.
Brand, T.S. and Jordaan, J.W. 2011. The contribution of the South African ostrich industry to the national economy. Journal of Applied Animal Husbandry 4 (1) (online) URL: http://www.sasas.co.za/aahrd/2011/1
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