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Congratulations to the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) for winning the Platinum Award for the 2nd year in a row at the Windhoek Agricultural Show. SASSCAL is proud to have [...]

Johannes Beck recently joined the SASSCAL Regional Secretariat as Environmental Data Specialist. Johannes has an interdisciplinary professional background in both academic research, in the [...]

The last three months have been an eventful and fruitful time for SASSCAL. You can read all about it and more in our September 2017 Newsletter: SASSCAL signed an MoU with the UNDP SASSCAL hosted [...]

The Environmental Investment Fund (EIF) launched the first two projects to be funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in Namibia. The launch was held on 30 August 2017 at the Windhoek Country [...]

On 21 August 2017, the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA), in line with the goals of its NSDI (National Spatial Data Infrastructure), presented and launched Geofind (http://geofind.nsa.org.na/), an [...]

SASSCAL participated in the 91st Zambia Agricultural and Commercial Show during the period of 2 to the 7th of August 2017. This year’s Show was themed “Promoting a green economy” which is in line [...]

The Hon. Minister, Maria Cândida Teixeira, Minister of Science and Technology, was delighted to welcome the  SASSCAL Governing Board to Luanda, Angola on 26 July 2017. She reminded the Board on [...]

The OPTIMASS (Options for sustainable geo-biosphere feedback management in savanna systems under regional and global change) project is a three-year collaborative, inter- and trans disciplinary [...]

The launch of the SASSCAL sponsored Master of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (SASSCAL Task 303) was held on 6 June 2017 in the Vice Chancellor’s senate chambers of the University of [...]

Three NUST students, conducting their Master thesis in the context of SASSCAL’s Research Portfolio, presented their work at the 60th Annual Symposium of the International Association for [...]