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Vanja Westerberg

Vanja is an environmental economist and number cruncher extraordinaire. She has 15 years of professional experience in applied research and consultancy work.

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Posted on: 3 January 2018

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The Case for Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Project duration: January 2018 – January 2020 Challenge Land degradation and desertification are amongst the world’s greatest environmental challenges. The African continent is the most affected in terms of soil erosion, but it has a huge potential for ecological restoration (Gnacadja and Wiese, 2016; ELD & UNEP 2015). The “Regreening Africa” project aims to restore […]

Altus Impact at the International Conference for Research and Development

Altus Impact had a busy week at the International Conference for Research and Development in Bern, Switzerland in September 2017. Vanja and Jesse convened a rich discussion on “How to Build Transformational Partnerships in a world of conflicting priorities when Scientists are from Mars, Policymakers are from Venus?” Abstract: In a world of 7.4 billion […]

Teacher Workshops: Tropical Deforestation and Sustainable Development, Singapore

Altus Impact partner, Dr Jesse Hastings, is currently working with the Singapore Ministry of Education (MoE) and other partners to design and coordinate a series of teacher training workshops focused on tropical deforestation, sustainable development, and tropical field studies. The aim of these workshops is to strengthen teachers’ theoretical and practical environmental expertise, so that […]

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