UNIDO, Swiss Govt Partner To Open Ultra-Modern Wood & Furniture Testing Center

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with support from the Government of Switzerland through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) officially commissioned an ultra-modern Wood and Furniture Testing Centre at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG), Fumesua in the Ashanti Region on Tuesday. The Centre … Read more

UNIDO Commissions Ultra-Modern Soil & Fertilizer Testing Lab In Ghana

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with support from the Switzerland government through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has commissioned an ultra-modern laboratory at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) -Soil Research Institute (SRI) in Kumasi on Thursday. The upgrade of the CSIR- SRI laboratory by UNIDO through the Trade … Read more

Linking Indigenous Knowledge and Science To Address Challenges Facing Society

GNA Feature by Kwabia Owusu-Mensah Kumasi, Oct 04, GNA – ‘In Africa, when an old man dies, it is a library burning’ (Hampate Ba, 1960, UNESCO conference). This quotation implies that in Africa, when a knowledgeable old person dies, a whole body or library of knowledge disappears – gets completely lost. This is because in … Read more