8 September 2017
The 2017 UNU-FTP fellows are arriving
This year 21 fellows are taking part in our six-month training program, of which the majority is women. They are coming from 15 countries in Asia, Africa, Central America and the Caribbean region.
7 September 2017
Visit from the Namibian ambassador
On August 25th, our program was visited by the Namibian ambassador Ms. Morina Muuondjo. Mr. Thor Asgeirsson, the UNU-FTP deputy director, and staff members Ms. Mary Frances Davidson and Mr. Stefán Úlfarsson greeted her.
6 September 2017
UNU-LRT fellows present their research projects at an open seminar
This week the UNU-LRT fellows presented their research projects in an open seminar at the research campus of the Agricultural University of Iceland. The research projects address a wide range of issues linked to land condition and management such as assessment of how existing wetland policies and laws in Uganda address the drivers of wetland degradation; effects of increasing droughts, due to climate change, on pest damage in Ghana; assessment of land degradation and drivers of degradation in Mongolia; impact of watershed management on land cover change in Ethiopia; designing restoration plan based on land condition assessment; and use of the arts to promote environmental awareness in Ghana. One of the outputs of the project work was a song by Beatrice Dossah, inspired by her work on environmental art education in Ghana. You can see the seminar programme here.
1 September 2017
UNU-GEST Article Series for Wikigender University
Wikigender University recently published a series of online articles by UNU-GEST fellows from the class of 2017. Two articles on the theme of gender-based violence are now accessible online, written by Devashia Whyte from Jamaica and Rami Abu Sa’ad from Palestine
31 August 2017
‘This girl is on fire!’: Understanding Gender Through Literature and Other Cultural Texts
Dr. Giti Chandra, an associated scholar at UNU-GEST offers a new course at the University of Iceland. The course offers a range of readings and texts from literature, audio and visual texts, and theories, around issues of gender in all its ramifications.
31 August 2017
Reschedule of the Hilborn Lectures
In order to make it possible for all interested parties to attend the whole series of Hilborn Lectures, organized by the UNU-FTP, without conflicts with activities concurrently being held at the World Seafood Congress in Reykjavik, it has been agreed on to shift his lectures slightly forward.