CDE Guest Lecture: Paul Wel

Submitted by dfoolen on April 7th, 2014 10:43 AM

Date:

Thursday, April 10th, 2014 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Capacity Development and Extension Guest Lecture:

Guest Speaker: Paul Wel

"Agroforestry Systems for Food Security and Peace - Building in Post Conflict and Extremely Fragile States".
A presentation on a graduate student's experience in South Sudan.

Thursday, April 10th
11:00 - noon
The Pit, Landscape Architecture building

Just a note about the speaker, UoG Alumnus Paul Wel (CDE/OAC class of 2012) is an inspiring individual working in one of the most difficult conflict areas of Africa (South Sudan). Before studying at UoG Paul worked/lived many years in the Darfur Refugee Camp. He has recently returned to Canada due to the insecurity of his work with re-training former soldiers in agriculture and agroforestry, a USAID program. He aims to start a PhD with Texas A&M.

Keywords:

Capacity Development and Extension

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CDE Guest Lecture: Paul Wel

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