
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.

23 January 2012
Thanks, Dr. Kai Lorenzen
The UNU-FTP Staff and Fellows would like to thank Dr. Kai Lorenzen, our 2012 guest lecturer, for an amazing week here in Iceland. Thank you for sharing your time and expertise with us!

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. ...

14 January 2012
Welcome Kai Lorenzen, UNU-FTP guest lecturer for 2012
The UNU-FTP is pleased to welcome Kai Lorenzen to Iceland as this year´s guest lecturer. Dr. Lorenzen is visiting us from the University of Florida where he is a Professor of Integrative
Fisheries Science.

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, ...