17 February 2012
Professor Jakob Rhyner, UNU Vice Rector in Europe and Director of UNU-EHS, introduced to UNU-LRT
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.
2 February 2012
Former fellow defended his PhD dissertation in Uzbekistan
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.
17 January 2012
Former fellow from Niger promoted at the Ministry of Environment
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. ...
4 January 2012
News from a former fellow from Uganda
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, ...
21 December 2011
Season´s greetings
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
12 December 2011
Former fellow from Ethiopia studies for a PhD degree
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.