EDUCATION
1999 - Part time PhD Student in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria.
3/78 - 8/79 - Master in Agricultural Management and Resource Development: University of Florida, USA.
7/72 - 5/75 - BSc in Agriculture Honours Degree: University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
1/66 - 12/71 - Ordinary and A-level secondary school curriculum (4 +2 years).
RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE
1/99 to date - Currently, I am employed by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development as a Research Officer for the European Union Project titled : The effect of rural inequality on fertility and migration, and hence, agricultural sustainability: A comparison of dry-lands farming in Botswana, India and South Africa. The same research will be the bases of my PhD study. Main Responsibilities include:
**Participating in all discussions to finalize the research instrument
**Carry out research with other members of the research team
**Co-ordinate the South African component of the research (field work, data capturing, data analysis, report writing).
**Any other tasks as assigned by the head of the department
**On a part time basis, I am also the Assistant Director in the PostGraduate School of Agriculture and Rural Development, responsible for the outreach program; and a Co-ordinator of the Rural Development / Project Analysis & Planning Curriculum and teaching materials development process.
2/98 - 12/98 - Employed by the Land and Agricultural Policy Centre, LAPC, as a Program Manager, Agricultural Policy and Rural Enterprise (APRE) Main Responsibilities included:
**Management of the APRE with a full time staff of 4 and a number of external research teams working on research in the areas of policy development, rural development and SMMEs; including:
**Long term research programme on agricultural policy with emphasis on development of an enabling environment for sustainable and equitable rural development of the historically marginalized people.
**Providing options on key policy issues in the agriculture sector, and reviewing existing policies. **Identifying policy and institutional measures to promote local enterprise development and job creation in rural areas.
**General socio-economic analysis and policy advice as require by other institutions and by departments of agriculture at both national and provincial levels.
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCES
During the period 1988-1994, while I was employed at the University of Swaziland, I was called upon from time to time by Mananga Agricultural Manage-ment Centre, in Mhlume, to deliver modules on Gender Issues, Agricultural Project Apprais-al, and Management of Rural Development, to Managers, planners and executives who attend short courses there. My practi-cal and research experience on food security and gender issues cannot be over-emphasised. I was a resource person to the Kellogg Foundation - Faculty of Agriculture Programme that train-ed rural women leaders in Swaziland. On three occasions, I was a resource consultant for FAO on gender related issues.
MEMBERSHIP
Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa.
Economic Association of Swaziland. Tanzania Society of Agricultural Economists.
Animal Traction Network of Eastern and Southern Africa (ATNESA).
South African Network of Animal Traction (SANAT).
Rotary International.
ZONTA International
PUBLICATIONS
**Food Security: Concepts, Policies and Strategies in Lesotho. Selected proceedings of the Con-fer-en-ce on Food Security Issues in Southern Africa. MASERU, 12-24 January 1987.
**An Exposition of the Basotho Women in Development Project. End of Project Report to UNICEF. MASERU, March 1987.
**The Social and Economic Aspects of Animal Traction in Agricultural production among Female Head-ed Household of Swaziland and Lesotho, in Lawrence, PR, Lawrence, K, Dijkman, JT & Stark-ey, PH (Eds), 1993. Research for Development of animal traction in West Africa. Proceed-ings of the fourth workshop of the West African Animal Traction Network held in Kano, Ni-geria. 9-13 July 1990. ILCA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
**WOMEN FARMERS: Has basic technology taken their needs into consideration? Lead article CDC Magazine No 21991, July 1991.
**Strategic Maize Storage: An option for improving national food security in Swaziland, March 1992. Final Report of a research study to University of Swaziland, Research and Publications, Kwa-luseni.
**Strategic Maize Storage: An option for improving national food security in Swaziland, January 1995. UNISWA Research Journal, Volume 9, Agriculture, University of Swaziland.
**The contribution of women in small business to the economic transformation process: The case of Leribe, Lesotho. UNISWA Journal of Agriculture, Volume 2, 1993. University of Swaziland.
**Technical and financial constraints that affect women's role in household food security and agri-cul-tural development in Lesotho. November 1993. Final Report of a research study to ADF, Wash-ington DC.
**Comparative and Multidimensional Analysis of Communal and Private Resources (LAND) Tenure in Africa. The Case of Swaziland. January 1994. Report to the Agrarian Reform and Land Settlement Service of FAO, Rome.
**Gender and Animal Draft Power, in Schoemaker and Jassey, K (Eds) 1996. Gender and Agri-cultural Engineering. Proceedings from AGROTEC/FAO Workshop held at Kadoma Ranch Motel, Zimbabwe on 4-8 March 1996. Harare. AGROTEC/FAO.
**SADC Agricultural Potential Assessment Project Country Profiles. December 1996. Report 1. Co-authored with Kleynhans, TE. Halfway House. Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
**A food security situation analysis report for the Northern Province of South Africa. January 1997. A study undertaken for CSIR-FOODTEK. Maitland University of Stellenbosch.
**Analysis of Post Production Constraints for Maize and Cassava in Zambia. August 1997.A Report co-authored with Robin Boxall and Alek Zaremba for Food and Agriculture Organization , PFL/ZAM/003/PFL PROJECT. FAO-Rome to publish it.
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Civil Status: Married
Date of Birth: 11 November 1950
Nationality: Tanzanian ( Permanent Resident of South Africa )
Address-Work: Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, PRETORIA 0002
Telephone: (012) 420-4226
Fax: (012) 420-3247