Dr Michelle Dunn explains the important role universities can play in developing and implementing effective aid programs in the Indo-Pacific region, while empowering communities and governments at all levels.
Mongolia captures the imagination as the home of the legendary Chinggis Khan; a land of rolling steppes and roaming nomads. However, life in Mongolia can be challenging, particularly for the country’s 160,000 herder households that depend on rangeland-based livestock husbandry for their income in a climate that is both extreme and unforgiving.
The Dryland Farming Africa Fellowship supported over fifty awardees from throughout Africa to improve the sustainability of their rainfed farming systems, primarily through appropriate soil and crop residue management.
Muma Bwalya Munansangu, an Agribusiness short course participant in 2017, is a development specialist working for the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission, a government agency aimed at providing broad-based empowerment to citizens.
The Australia Awards Agribusiness Short Course, designed by The University of Queensland’s (UQ) International Development unit was specifically for participants from 15 African countries, provided learning experiences related to agribusiness to enhance participants’ ability to engage with and influence challenges regarding sustainable economic development in their home country, profession, workplace and community.
Based in Obuasi in the heart of Ghana’s gold region, Richard Ellimah is an advocate and leader fighting for the rights and needs of communities impacted by mining operations in Ghana.
The way Pacific Island communities on the frontline of climate change are experiencing and working through loss and grief is being documented in a project that could become a ‘wake-up call’ for the rest of the world.
The University of Queensland has partnered with Papua New Guinea's largest technological institution to support sustainable development outcomes across the country’s resources sector.
The University of Queensland and Newcrest Mining Limited have signed a partnership agreement that paves the way for long-term education, training and research activities.
Leading human rights activist Debbie Stothard will address issues currently facing the South-East Asian nation of Myanmar during a public seminar at The University of Queensland on Monday.
