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Director of Agricultural Policy Research

Professor Jan A. Groenewald is a well-known agricultural economist with international experience.
Before his retirement in 1997, he was professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Pretoria for 29 years (26 years as head of the department). He had previously been senior lecturer at the Universities of Pretoria and Natal, and also research assistant at Purdue University. Prior to this, he worked for the Department of Agriculture and a private company involved with large-scale production of citrus fruit.

During sabbaticals he was visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota and visiting professor at McGill University and the University of Ghent.
He has published approximately 180 articles in scientific journal and 10 chapters in books. He has received the Stals Prize for Economics from the Academy of Science and Arts, the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fund Grant for Senior Academics, and awards from the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, six times for the best publication in a year and eight times for the best article in their Journal, "Agrekon". He is an honorary life member of this association, and has been elected to the Witwatersrand Agricultural Society’s Hall of Farm. 		 

 

He has also served on a few committees, the most notable of which were the Interdepartmental Committee of Enquiry into the Use of Agricultural Land (1968-69), The Committee on Working Conditions of Farm Workers and Domestic Servants (1982-1983) and the Advisory Committee on Agricultural Economics Research (1975-1990).
Jan Groenewald is presently Professor Extraodinaire of Agricultural Economics at the University of Free State.