New group of UNU-LRT fellows

Fellows attending this year’s six-month training programme have arrived. This is the third group of fellows attending the six-month training since the Land Restoration Training programme became a UNU programme in 2010. The fellows this year are ten and come from Ghana (2), Mongolia (3), Namibia (2), Uganda (2) and Uzbekistan (1); five women and five men.

During the first three months of the training, the fellows are located at the Agricultural University of Iceland at Keldnaholt in Reykjavik. There the main course work will take place. This year two lines of specialization will be offered: sustainable land management, and land degradation and global environmental change. Later in the programme, the fellows will move to the headquarters of the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland in Gunnarsholt.