Agriculture and Science

Prof Mjabuliseni Ngidi is a Food and Nutrition Security expert. Mjabu serves as an Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, teaching and supervising across the disciplines of Agricultural Extension, and food and nutrition security. Mjabu also currently serves as the Academic Manager of the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems Southern Africa (SHEFS-SA) programme. After finishing his PhD, he went to do his post-doctoral studies at the University of Pretoria’s Institute for Food, Nutrition and Wellbeing. He holds an MSc-Agric degree and also a degree in Microbiology and Biochemistry from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
He is committed to being engaged in research that brings solutions to real-life challenges. His current work examines how impoverished populations mitigate hunger and starvation while analyzing existing food and nutrition security policies and their impact on Diets and health outcomes. This research supports South Africa’s strategic investments in agriculture, food and nutrition security, and Sustainable Development Goals initiatives, including agricultural extension, poverty reduction, hunger alleviation, and production systems improvement.

His research focuses on household resource economics, rural development, youth in agriculture, food environments, food and nutrition security, household consumption, consumption and income shock coping strategies, livelihoods, food policy, food systems and climate change’s resilience strategies. Mjabu has also developed interest in livestock, fisheries and their contribution to health, food and nutrition securtiy outcomes.