Ola Westengen is an Associate Professor at Noragric and leader of the research cluster 'Climate Change and Agricultural Development' at the department. Previous to joining Noragric in 2015, Westengen was the Coordinator of Operations and Management of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. He does research on agrobiodiversity; conservation and use of genetic resources; seed supply systems; food security and adaptation to climate change; crop evolution and crop diversity as biocultural heritage.
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Arbeidsområder
- Agrobiodiversity
- Crop evolution
- Agricultural Development
- Agri-food systems
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Publikasjoner
See Cristin link above for overview
Selected publications:
Westengen OT et al. 2017 A Climate for Commerce: The Political Agronomy of Conservation Agriculture in Zambia In press Agriculture and Human Values DOI: 10.1007/s10460-017-9820-x
Westengen OT 2017 Crops in context: negotiating traditional and formal seed Institutions, in Agronomy for development: the politics of knowledge in agricultural research. Ed. Jim Sumberg, Earthscan Springer.
Westengen, OT; Berg, T. 2016 Crop Adaptation to Climate Change in SSA: The Role of Genetic Resources and Seed Systems. I: Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture. Springer.
The State of Food Security: From Availability, Access and Rights to Food Systems Approaches. Forum for Development Studies (2016) DOI:10.1080/08039410.2015.1134644
Ethnolinguistic structuring of sorghum genetic diversity in Africa and the role of local seed systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2014) 111(39):14100- 14105
Crop adaptation to climate change in the semi-arid zone in Tanzania: the role of genetic resources and seed systems. Agriculture & Food Security. (2014) 3(3)
Modern maize varieties going local in the semi-arid zone in Tanzania. BMC Evolutionary Biology. (2014) 14(1)
Westengen, OT; Jeppson, S & Guarino, L (2013). Global Ex-Situ Crop Diversity Conservation and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Assessing the Current Status. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 8(5). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064146
Westengen O.T., Huaman Z., Heun M. (2005) Genetic Diversity and Geographic Pattern in Early South American Cotton Domestication. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 110: 392-402
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Undervisning
EDS 352 Agriculture, Development and the Environment (Course Leader)
EDS 315 Management of Genetic Resources: Law, Policy and Practice (Course Leader)
EDS 303 Introduction to International Environmental Studies
EDS 306 Foundations of Sustainability Science
ED 430 PhD Course in Environmenta and Development Studies
SUM4029 Global Governance for Sustainable Development (University of Oslo)
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Forskning & prosjekt
Prosjekter
The project aims to improve food and nutrition security by integrating sustainable agricultural intensification systems and innovative institutional approaches to increase income and enhance smallholder adaptive capacity in Sub-Sahara Africa.
The overall objective of the study is to assess seed systems as social-ecological systems with an emphasis on agro-ecological, social, cultural, economic and political variables.
Forskningsområder
Tema:
- Mat
- Planter
- Utvikling
Spesialområder:
- Plantegenetiske ressurser