Mohammad Karaan was a great teller of instructional tales
Agricultural transformation and land reform has lost a policy heavyweight
On January 13 we lost a good friend and the country lost a pre-eminent policy adviser in the fields of agricultural development and land reform. Yet another victim of the Covid-19 scourge.
Mohammad Karaan was one of those rare policy advisers who combined practical experience with academic excellence: as a farmer (first in essential oils in the Caledon district, then in olives in Robertson); as a policy analyst (at the Development Bank of Southern Africa and at the Rural Foundation); as an administrator (as chair of the National Agricultural Marketing Council, or NAMC, and as dean of the faculty of agrisciences and vice-rector at Stellenbosch University); and as a businessperson (director of numerous public, private and state entities, and executive manager of a range of medium and small enterprises)...
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