College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences

Research focus areas for 2023: Department of Agriculture and Animal Health

Information required for the 2022 application

Please complete the information required in this form and submit a CV, Academic Transcripts as well as
Concept Note of your proposed research
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Field of interest (chose only 1 as this should relate to your specialisation field as per your qualification)
Animal Science
Plant Science
Animal Health
Agricultural Economics
Food Security
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Research focus areas for 2022
 In which focus area are you interested in that relates to the field of interest? Choose one of the
following
Animal Science:
Poultry Production (production management and biosecurity, breeding, physiology and
nutrition), Monogastric nutrition (use of non-conventional feed resources, indigenous feed
resources and Feed restriction methods) and Optimization models. Ruminant nutrition
including large and small stock (pasture science, range and forage)
Animal Health:
Animal Diseases – infectious and non-infectious diseases, Epidemiology of tickborne
diseases (tickborne diseases), Veterinary Public Health/applied epidemiology (epidemiology
of food borne diseases and antimicrobial drug resistance in domestic animals and humans), &
Animal Nutrition and animal health, Phytomedicine and microbiology ((Epidemiology and
diagnosis of Infectious diseases, antimicrobial drug resistance and drug development from
plants/chemicals in both domestic animals and humans). Animal welfare.
Plant Science:
Field crop production research, Vegetable production research, Plant genetics/breeding and
biotechnology research, Soil analyses research, Soil metabolomics, Irrigation and water
management including hydroponics research, Plant protection research including plant
pest/diseases research, Crop post-harvest research, Pasture production research, Organic
and inorganic fertilizer application research, Indigenous crops research (Propagation and
cultivation of indigenous plants and the effects on their chemical profile and biological activity),
Plant metabolomics (metabolites, medicinal plants and assessment of these effects on the
chemical profiles and biological activity), Plant-microbe/herbivore interactions (plants
interacting with herbivores and microbes and especially pathogens).
Agricultural Economics:
Agricultural production economics, Agribusiness & value adding, Land reform, Agricultural
Extension related research, Bio-fuel/Bio-Energy, Agricultural marketing and Price Analyses,
Agricultural Policy Analyses research, Risk and Decision Making Research, Agricultural
management, Economic viability of projects, Value chain, international trade, rural finance,
climate change (Adaptation strategies, CSA, Precision Agriculture, etc), Agricultural
cooperatives research, Trend analyses research in Agriculture, Agricultural Entrepreneurship
related research, Impact assessment of projects/programmes, the general Agricultural Socio-
economic research; and Food security (National, Household food and nutrition security, urban
agriculture, indigenous/ traditional vegetables and fruit, ethnic foods & food safety
challenges).

Have you consulted the Focus Areas document for Agriculture and Animal Health? Yes No
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Research focus areas for 2022