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Last week the 2012 UNU-LRT fellows visited the headquarters of the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland (SCSI) in Gunnarsholt. The fellows were told about the history of SCSI and shown some of the facilities at the headquarters.

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.

On 16 February, Professor Jakob Rhyner, Director of UNU Institute of Environment and Human Security and UNU Vice Rector for Europe, visited the UNU programmes in Iceland and attended a board meeting at the UNU Fisheries Training Programme.

Toshpulat Rajabov, a former LRT fellow from 2009, recently defended his PhD project titled "Spatio-temporal changes of vegetation cover of semi desert along the grazing gradient (in case of Karnabchul)" in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Moustapha Ibrahim from Niger participated in the UNU-LRT six-month training programme in 2010. Before he joined the UNU-LRT programme, Mr. Ibrahim was the chief of the Division of Nature Protection at the Ministry of Environment. On 5 December 2011, he was promoted to be the Head of the National Division of Land Restoration at the Ministry of Environment. ...

Joel Charles Owona took part in the Land Restoration Training Programme’s (LRT) six-month training course in 2008. He used to work as a District Environment Officer in Pader District in northern Uganda – a region which suffered from war for a long time. The subject of Joel’s project during his LRT study was the internally displaced Person’s  (IDP) camps in Pader district, ...