Academic Qualifications
- PhD (Crop Science)
- MSc Agric (Crop Science)
- Exec. Certificate in Non-Profit Project Management
- BSc Agriculture Honours (Crop Science)
Biography
Dr Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi is a boundary-spanner with extensive experience developing and maintaining internal and external relationships across academia, public and private sectors, civil society, and communities. He is goal-orientated with a passion for research and development that is dynamic, transformative, informs policy, and achieves societal impacts. He has a keen interest in the science-policy-practitioner interface, working with policy, decision-makers, and practitioners to contribute to evidence-based policy, decision-making, and practice.
Research Interests
- Crop responses to abiotic and biotic stresses
- Water use and crop-climate modelling to multi- and transdisciplinary research areas covering sustainable food systems
- Global environmental change and the water-energy-food nexus.
Research Profiles

Dr Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi
Honorary Research Fellow
Discipline
Centre for Transformative Agricultural and Food Systems (CTAFS)
mabhaudhi@ukzn.ac.za
Contact
074 130 9845
Campus
Pietermaritzburg