Soils, Governance and Society Workshop
An interdisciplinary workshop on Soils, Governance and Society was held in Iceland last week. The workshop brought together people from various disciplines such as the academia, administration and practitioners, as well as from different regions of the world. The focus of the workshop was to explore how natural resource governance might be radically improved to meet the many challenges to sustainability. The fellows of the UNU-LRT six-month training course participated in the workshop and gave a presentation on the first day. The title of their presentation was Land degradation in Africa and Asia: Natural resource governance. Esther Amoako from Ghana gave the talk on behalf of the UNU-LRT fellows.
The workshop was held by the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland, Penn State University and the University of New England, in partnership with the Global Soil Partnership and the UNU-Land Restoration Training Programme. You can read more about the workshop on its homepage http://soilgovernance.land.is/.