R E S E A R C H

R E S E A R C Hat the Department of International Environment and

Development Studies (Noragric), UMB

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES

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Noragric Permanent scientific staff: 23/24 Post.Doc. fellows: 5 PhD candidates at present: approx. 40

From: Africa 14, Asia 3, Norway 17, Europe - other countries 3, America 3

Research is organised in 4 Research Clusters Number of scientific publications/year: 78 (2012)

Dept of International Environment and Developm

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Noragric’s Research Profile at UMB

Strong international orientation in both research and education programmes

Working with and aiming to further develop: interdisciplinary approaches to global and cross-

cutting challenges in environment and development A special responsibility for social sciences (except

economics located at Handelshøyskolen) at UMB Managing UMB’ competence agreement with NORAD Responsible for coordination of institutional

collaboration for a large number of agreements with institutions in countries in the Global South and in Eastern Europe

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Research Clusters at Noragric

Environmental Governance (ENGOV) Conflict, Human Security & Development

(CHSD) Climate Change, Agriculture and Development

(CC-AD) Rights and Power in Development (RAPID)

The clusters are organised as thematic research groups, and therefore have partly overlapping memberships. All PhD candidates are members of at least one cluster.




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Environmental Governance(ENGOV)

Cluster Leader: Pål VedeldStaff involved: Staff: 18, PhD candidates: 15 (approx.)

Research areas: Global conventions & governance levels, and links to regional, trans-

boundary, and national and local levels Governance structures, policy formulation and implementation Protection as a distinct policy measure and instrument Power and elite captures of local resources Decentralization and participation Knowledge and power Rights-based and participatory development Institutions; attitudes, values and norms Poverty, livelihoods, resource dependence and conflicts




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Conflict, Human Security & Development (CHSD)

Cluster Leader: Ingrid NyborgStaff involved: Scientific staff: 11, PhD candidates: 10 (approx.)

Research areas: Human security in conflict/post conflict, war/post war situations Conflict/post conflict institution building Human security and human rights Health and conflict Livelihood security and revival in conflict and post-conflict

contexts; resettlement and reintegration Resource conflicts, negotiations and human security Seed systems and security in conflict/post-conflict and post-

disaster situations




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Climate Change, Agriculture and Development(CC-AD)

Cluster Leader: Jens AuneStaff involved: Scientific staff: 8, PhD candidates: 8

(approx.)

Research areas: Adaptation and mitigation of climate change in rural

areas Livelihood security of rural households Improved farming methods Management of agricultural biodiversity Agricultural policies and trade Environmental impacts of agricultural production




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Rights and Power in Development (RAPID)Cluster Leader: John Andrew McNeishStaff involved: Scientific staff 18; PhD candidates: 9 (approx.)

Research areas: Formalisation of land and resource rights Equal rights vs. asymmetric power relationships in

developing countries Competing claims to resources under different

development models Normative principles in development processes Political and legal accountabilities in relation to human

rights and democratic participation Knowledge, power and accountability in development

processes




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Resources, Risk and Governance – Net (RRG-Net) Critical Mass – a forum to build research capacity

to address climate change, poverty and development challenges



Networks


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Resources, Risk and Governance – Net (RRG-Net)

Network Leader: Gufu Oba

Research areas: Resources: The potential for adaptation; Different natural systems’

resilience and variability and the goals of the users. Risk: Bridging the gaps between resource adaptations and social

demands in the face of external & internal drivers of risks. How different natural systems exposed to comparable environmental variability respond to systems management.

Governance: Socio-political perspectives of management, drivers of policy, formal and informal systems. Governance and risk reduction in management of natural systems with reference to risks such as those caused by insecurity of tenure.




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Critical Mass – a forum to build research capacity to address climate change, poverty and development challenges



Network leader: Siri Eriksen

The 'Critical Mass – is a Norwegian forum of researchers and practitioners engaged in building research and capacity to address climate change, poverty and development challenges. The name reflects two key objectives:

• First, to forge dialogue and synergies between practitioners and researchers spread across diverse institutions in order to create a critical mass of experts confronting climate change, poverty and development challenges.

• Second, to address as a group the need to think critically about the problem of climate change by identifying key emerging understanding, perspectives, questions and knowledge gaps.


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Results: PhD DefencesSince start of PhD programme (1996) 35 PhD candidates

graduated. In 2012: David M. Tumusiime Protected areas and people in Uganda:

Costs, benefits, livelihoods and narratives around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Bridget B. Umar From maize mono-cropping to conservation agriculture : A multi-perspective analysis of smallholder conservation agriculture in southern, central and eastern Zambia

Nani Raut Agricultural intensification processes and greenhouse gas emissions from soils: a study from Nepal and India

Progress Nyanga Conservation agriculture among smallholder farmers in Zambia: Attitudes and socio-economic impacts




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Results: PhD Defences 2013 – by July Hege Wallevik The complexity of generalisation: A

phenomenological approach to economic affairs among women in Zanzibar Town

Kishor Atreya Pesticide use in Nepal: Health effects and economic costs for farmers in the Central mid-hills

Frode Sundnes Claiming Land, Nature and History: Land Restitution and Nature Conservation at the Dukuduku Forest, South Africa.

Kashif Saeed Khan Conflict, livelihoods and local perspectives of peace building in post-9/11 north-western Pakistan.

Sunetro Ghosal Intimate beasts: Exploring relationships between humans and large carnivores in western India.




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Results: Noragric Publications 2012

Number of (peer reviewed) publications: 78 Including one book, 56 journal articles, and 21

book chapters Publication points total: 56,2

(in Norwegian Current Research Information System)

Publication points per scientific staff:1,34• UMB’s target is 1 pp per scientific staff

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Noragric’s Research and Knowledge Dissemination in other publication and information channels



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