Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric
Excellence in the interdisciplinary study of development, international relations and the environment.
About us
Our research, education and institutional collaboration activities are focused primarily, but not exclusively, on developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
Since its establishment in 1986 as a centre at the former Norwegian Agricultural University, Noragric has played an important role in developing institutional collaboration agreements with the university's many partners in Africa, Asia and South East Europe. These collaborations not only offer NMBU students the opportunity to take part of their studies abroad, but also for NMBU to welcome students and researchers to Ås.
Noragric staff and students engage in interdisciplinary studies on a wide range of issues concerning poverty, livelihoods, gender, property rights, environmental management, conflict, peace building and post-conflict development in sub-Saharan Africa, South- and Southeast Asia and South America.
Jennifer Joy West
Head of Department
Research
Research school, centres and groups
- Center for Community-Based Policing and Post-Conflict Police Reform
- Empowered Futures Global Research School
- Climate Change, Food Systems, Agriculture and Development (research cluster)
- Environmental Governance (research cluster)
- Global Orders, Security and Crisis (research cluster)
- NMBU Sustainability Area: Planetary Boundaries
- Political Ecology Forum
- Rights, Accountability and Power in Development (research cluster)
- Seed System Lab
Research projects- Access to seeds: From emergencies to seed system development
- Biodiversity for Opportunities, Livelihoods and Development: Genebanks and Seed Systems (BOLD)
- Climate Smart Agriculture in East and South Africa
- Climate Smart Agricultural Technologies for Improved Rural Livelihoods and Food Security in Niger and Mali
- Exit and effective reintegration of violent extremists in Scandinavia (Exit)
- Highlands 3: Collective approach of research and innovation for sustainable development in Highlands
- Joint learning for food security: Extension, agroecology and rural transformation (NORPART-EAT)
- LANDRESPONSE: New perspectives on land dispossession, violent conflict and migration in the West African Sahel
- Nordic Space Infrastructures: Environment, Security, and Future Imaginaries of Outer Space in the High North (NordSpace)
- Real-world ecosystem management (ECOREAL)
- Small livestock-based value chains with goats and sheep
- Small-scale food producers at the frontier of food and nutrition security and climate resilience
- Sustainable Coastal Recreation: The role and potential of voluntary organizations and civic engagement in coastal areas under pressure
- Sustainable Food Systems for Rural Resilience and Transformation (TRANSFORM)
- Transforming matrilineal land rights in Mozambique
- About NORHED II 2021-2026
PublicationsContact us
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Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
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