2 February 2009
Former LRT fellows spread the word: an article in the newspaper Namibian about restoration of degraded land
An article about restoration of degraded land was published in the newspaper Namibian on
January the 22nd. In the article, two LRT fellows of the 2008 programme state the problems of land degradation, climate change and loss of biodiversity in Namibia.
They talk about how the Land Restoration Training Programme, which builds on the Icelandic experience of landcare, taught them that the root causes of land degradation are very related around the
world although environmental problems can be very different from one place to another. They also talk about the importance of involving local people in
restoration and landcare work and to use bottom-up approach to improve success rate of projects. You can read the whole article here.
Taimi Sofia Kapalanga and Emily Mutota from Namibia, with Bolormaa Baatar
from Mongolia in the middle, in the field in Iceland
3 October 2008
First graduation from six month training programme
Six LRT fellows who participated in the first full six month training programme graduated on 3 October 2008. They came from Namibia, Uganda and Mongolia.
30 November 2007
The first fellows of the LRT programme
The Land Restoration Training, LRT, took its
first steps in 2007 by offering a training programme of seven weeks in relation to the international forum “Soil, Society and Global Change” celebrating the hundred year anniversary of
the Soil Conservation Service in Iceland. The participants were five from Egypt, Uganda, Tunisia and Mongolia.