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Press Release
Call for Independent Scientific Review Board Members for World Food Academy 4 Sustainable Food Systems
UNU-INWEH invites leading experts to support independent scientific review of the World Food Academy’s educational content.
Announcement
Next Course: “Genomics Applied to One Health”, February 2027
Apply for a scholarship to participate in the course coordinated by Drs. Laura Kamenetzky and Eva Figuerola at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Commentary
Resilience Starts at Home – Capacities for Urban Transformation
How households, communities and policymakers can turn local knowledge into climate-resilient, just urban transformation.
Side Event
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) 2021
The CSW reviews progress towards gender equality and women empowerment, identify challenges, set global standards and norms and formulate policies.
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Shruthi Manivannan
Shruthi Manivannan is a Research Assistant at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University.
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News
From the Chinampas to the World and Back: How the Voices of a Mexican Farming Community Travelled Thanks to a UNU-EHS Documentary
A UNU film on ancestral farming practices travelled the world and helped open new conversations about preserving generational knowledge.
Journal Article
Design of a Constructed Wetland as a Nature-Based Solution for the Japanese Garden Lagoon, La Paz, Bolivia
Urban lakes and ornamental ponds are among the landscape elements that greatly enhance the quality of life in urban areas.