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Another regional workshop on "Capacity Development for Farm Management Strategies to Improve Crop-Water Productivity, using AquaCrop", jointly organized by UNW-DPC, FAO and China Agricultural University, was held in Beijing, China.
On October 9, the UNU-Rector and the Senegalese Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research signed an agreement for the establishment of a United Nations University Institute in Dakar, Senegal.
Established in 1998 by the Faculty of Political Science of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, the award recognizes the unique contributions of individuals to bridge cultural and intellectual divides for the betterment of mankind.
THE MISSION OF the United Nations University is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States.
Call for JPFs:
UNU-ONY is recruiting new Junior Professional Fellows (JPFs) for the February 1st to July 31st 2010 session. Application deadline is November 15 2009. More information
UNU Conversation Series: The Economic Crisis
UNU brings together important global intellectual and policy voices, including Olivier Blanchard, Francois Bourguignon, Noam Chomsky, Richard Cooper, Robert Johnson, Eisuke Sakakibara, Joseph Stiglitz, in a multimedia intellectual forum on the economic crisis entitled "UNU Economic Crisis Conversation Series".
UNU supports research on the causes and effects of global warming, the development of viable solutions and their implementation. Learn more at www.unu.edu/climate.
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