R E S E A R C H at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), UMB
Noragric Permanent scientific staff: 23/24 Post.Doc. fellows: 5 PhD candidates at present: approx. 42 From: Africa 15, Asia 5, Norway 17, Europe - other countries 3, America 2 Research is organised in 4 Research Clusters Number of scientific publications/year: 78 (2012)
Research at Noragric 2012 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 3
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.
Environmental Governance (ENGOV) Cluster Leader: Pål Vedeld Staff 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
Conflict, Human Security & Development Cluster Leader: Ingrid Nyborg (CHSD) Staff 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
Climate Change, Agriculture and Development (CC-AD) Cluster Leader: Jens Aune Staff 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
Rights and Power in Development (RAPID) Cluster Leader: John Andrew McNeish Staff 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
Networks Resources, Risk and Governance Net (RRG-Net) Critical Mass a forum to build research capacity to address climate change, poverty and development challenges
Resources, Risk and Governance Net Network Leader: Gufu Oba Research areas: (RRG-Net) 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.
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.
Research at Noragric 2012 Results: PhD Defences 2011 Øyvind Eggen State Formation and the Impact of Foreign Aid in Malawi Charlotte Nakakaawa Potentials, Policies, and Projects: On carbon sequestration at national, local and household levels in Uganda Jon Geir Petursson Institutions and Transboundary Protected Area Management: The Case of Mt. Elgon, Kenya Hussein Jemma Sheymo Politics and Property Rights Regimes in Land in Arsi Negele and Hetossa, South-Central Oromia, Ethiopia Simon Pahle Bringing the Workers' Rights Back In? The Discourses and Politics of Fortifying Core Labour Standards through a Labour- Trade Linkage Eirin Hongslo Knowing the Landscape: Science, People and Power Relations in Namaqualand, South Africa 12
Results: PhD Defences 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 socioeconomic impacts
Results: PhD Defences 2013 so far 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
Research at Noragric 2012 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 for is 1 pp s per scientific staff 15
Noragric s Research and Knowledge Dissemination in other publication and information channels 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 3 11 7 7 7 4 5 6 0 0 1 1615 43 52 2728 20 3 13 15 8 10 6 7 34 36 2008 2009 2010 2011