Paul Hebinck is Associate Professor in Sociology of Rural Development at Wageningen University in the the Netherlands and Adjunct Professor at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa
Ben Cousins is Professor and DST/NRF Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. He founded PLAAS in 1995 and directed it from its inception until September 2009.
Paul Hebinck is Associate Professor in Sociology of Rural Development at Wageningen University in the the Netherlands and Adjunct Professor at the University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa
Ben Cousins is Professor and DST/NRF Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. He founded PLAAS in 1995 and directed it from its inception until September 2009.
Henning de Klerk is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Jonathan Denison manages the agricultural water services of Umhlaba Consulting Group, East London, South Africa.
Ntombekhaya Faku is an animal scientist with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, East London, South Africa, and member of the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions.
Derick Fay is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.
Klara Jacobson is a PhD student in Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Petunia Khutswane was with the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Administration, Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
Rosalie Kingwill is an independent academic, policy and action research consultant. She is a research associate at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape.
Karin Kleinbooi is currently employed in the agriculture development sector and focus on linking developing producers into sustainable horticulture supply and value chains.
Zamile Madyibi is a senior manager in the Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform, East London, South Africa.
Francois Marais is one of the leading architects in the South African market, coming from a family of architects, design runs strongly in his veins. Francois graduated from Wits University B.Arch (Wits).
Modise Moseki is a lecturer in the Department of Development Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria.
Malebogo Phetlhu is an agriculturalist at the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, George, South Africa.
Robert Ross recently retired as Professor of African History at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is the author of numerous books on the history of southern Africa, notably the Cape Colony, including most recently The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829–1856 (Cambridge, 2014). He was also one of the editors of both volumes of The Cambridge History of South Africa (Cambridge, 2010 and 2011).
Dik Roth has a MA Social Anthropology and development sociology from University of Amsterdam and a PhD Social Sciences from Wageningen University.
Limpho Taoana was an Agricultural Advisor (Dairy) for the Free State provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, South Africa
Harriët Tienstra is a social scientist and has a MSc in International Development Studies from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
Wim van Averbeke is a Professor in the Department of Crop Science, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.
Yves Van Leynseele holds a PhD in rural development sociology from Wageningen University (completed 2013) and currently works as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
