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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, ...

Dear Friends of UNU-LRT. Another good year for the UNU-Land Restoration Training Programme has come to an end. We send our best wishes for the festive season ahead and many thanks for the acceptance and interest the Programme has received in 2011. Happy New Year! Hafdis Hanna Aegisdottir, Berglind Orradottir and Thorbjorg Valdis Kristjansdottir      

Tigist Araya Gessesse from Ethiopia participated in the six-month training course of the Land Restoration Training Programme in 2009. She has an MSc degree in Tropical Land Resources Management and has worked as lecturer at Mekelle University in Northern Ethiopia from 2006. Two months ago, Tigist started a PhD study at the Center for Development Research /Zentrum fur Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources Management, University of Bonn in Germany. Her research topic is: Dynamics of different soil organic carbon fractions under various land use and management options in Ethiopia. This topic is related to Tigist‘s individual project work that she worked on in Iceland titled Assessment of the impact of different regevegation methods on soil carbon stocks in Iceland The UNU-LRT team wishes Tigist all the best for her PhD studies.    

The United Nations University Land Restoration Training Programme (UNU-LRT) is now on Facebook! On Facebook, we will keep you up to date with what is going on at UNU-LRT, news about new and former fellows, what is happening in land restoration in Iceland and international stories on environmental issues we think are worth sharing. Please visit the UNU-LRT Facebook page  and "like" it to follow our work.

A new book HEALING THE LAND: The story of land reclamation and soil conservation in Iceland written by Professor Roger Crofts was published last week by the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland (SCSI).  It describes the fascinating story of land restoration and soil stabilization in Iceland over the last one hundred years.  The publication of the book was celebrated last Friday in a meeting on the international importance of land reclamation and soil conservation activities.  There the author introduced his work and emphasised on the importance of spreading the successful story of reclamation and soil conservation work in Iceland to the global audience.