NMBU is part of an ambitious international effort to advance the capacity of Arctic communities to adapt to climate and biodiversity changes in a major new EU Horizon 2020 project.
Lillebye, a professor at the Faculty of Landscape and Society, won the prize for NMBU's Best Lecturer for the spring term 2020 on the basis of student nominations. Congratulations!
In his doctoral research, Yonas Berhanu identified agricultural technologies that increase food production and farmers' incomes, make agriculture less vulnerable to climate change and contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
Using an innovative blend of managerial sciences, welfare economics, game theory and behavioural economics, Anders Eika analysed how property developers cooperate in Norway, and the factors that help and hinder such cooperation.
Anise Gold-Watts engaged local communities to culturally adapt school-based water, sanitation and hygiene interventions via the SHINE project in a rural community in India.
1.3 billion Indians have been ordered to stay home, and public transport stopped running overnight. Millions of Indians have to walk hundreds of kilometres to get to their own homes. Researchers at NMBU now fear that the country is also facing a famine.
Due to the shortage of clean water and soap, weak healthcare systems and great poverty, many African countries are poorly equipped to deal with the rapid spread of Covid-19 across the continent.
Multiconsult and Noragric at NMBU's Faculty of Landscape and Society will collaborate on research and consultancy on the environmental, social and economic affects of renewable energy projects, environmental management and the management of water resources.
Discover NMBU's newly established Centre for Evidence-Based Public Healthand learn about the Joanna Briggs approach to qualitative and quantitative systematic reviews. 11 October at Vitenparken. Free event, registration required.
Combining practices from landscape architecture and studies in global development, this programme offers a unique approach to environmental and social challenges across the globe.
Peace process delegation from Mali visit NMBU to get acquainted with the university's innovative work towards combatting insecurity - particularly food shortage - in the country
OsloBIENNALEN uses a research-based approach to look at how art interacts with public spaces. LANDSAM is associated with the curatorial team through the research group Terrotorialisation and methods in planning (T&MP).
The authors Marius Fiskevold and Anne K. Geelmuyden will present the book Arcadia Updated - Raising landscape awareness through analytical narratives, followed by a comment from Timothy Saunders, associate professor in Languages and English literature at the University College of Volda. The event is open to the public.
It is one hundred years since the landscape architect programme began at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) making Norway the first country in Europe to educate landscape architects and this centennial will be celebrated with the OUTDOOR MATTERS exhibition at the National Museum – Architecture, Oslo.
Farmers’ access to seeds is the focus of a new project ‘Access to seeds: From emergencies to seed system development’, led by Ola Westengen and funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN).
Many of the big names in political ecology attended the POLLEN conference, opened by the Oslo Green Party's Lan Marie N. Berg in June 2018. With over 500 delegates from over 70 countries, the event is one of the largest in its field.
Noragric's 'Rights, Accountability and Power in Development' (RAPID) research group receives top ranking from the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education.
A second phase of a Noragric project focused on improving food security in Mali was recently confirmed by Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly and the Norwegian embassy in Mali.
On 19 June 2018, LANDSAM arranged a joint Graduation Day, a big, eventful day where all of the spring's approximately 170 Bachelor- and Master students at LANDSAM took their oral examinations.
After decades of violent conflict, large numbers of Somalis have been displaced and the subsequent migration has contributed to the growth of cities across the country. This NMBU project, led by Durham University in the UK, will investigate links between urbanization and displacement in Somalia. Read more in the project’s first report.
Noragric's Tor A. Benjaminsen and Siri Eriksen are selected to work on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s next assessment report.
Noragric's Tor A. Benjaminsen and Siri Eriksen are selected to work on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s next assessment report.
A year ago, the Colombian president was in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize; the Colombian government promised to protect peasants, indigenous people and afro-descendants. They are not keeping that promise, writes Noragric PhD Fellow Cornelia Helmcke (also published in forskning.no).
The Young Academy of Norway has assigned 14 new members. One of them is Morten Jerven, a Professor of Development Studies at Noragric. Congratulations!
Noragric student Brenda Awuor Jimris-Rekve won the prize for Best Master’s Thesis at NMBU in 2016 for her work on the impact of terrorism on the Kenyan media.
Virtual Reality can help facilitate more informed discussions between stakeholders in urban planning projects and lead to more transparency – resulting in better and fairer processes, says researcher.
The project aims to improve food security in Africa by integrating ways of increasing productivity for smallholder farms with innovative institutional approaches, including the use of smart phone apps and social media to communicate techniques and information.
What are the challenges and solutions to achieving a fair valuation of the benefits of nature for a good quality of life? This is the over-arching theme of a newly published special issue of the journal Ecosystem Services, co-edited by Erik Gómez-Baggethun.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Working Paper No. 190 co-authored by Lutgart Lenaerts and Siri Eriksen.
