The real cost of your cashew nutsA growing interest in plant-based diets and the use of nuts as dairy alternatives has put cashews in high demand. In Guinea-Bissau, this global demand is leading to the loss of wild plants that feed l…
A temporary climate winner? Svalbard reindeer have benefitted from warmer Svalbard summers and autumnsClimate change is rapidly altering Arctic ecosystems, with significant consequences for species dependent on seasonal food availability. In her PhD, Samantha Paige Huset Dwinnell investigates how Sval…
Unlocking the Secrets of Seaweed: Enzymes and Fucoidans from Brown AlgaeBrown seaweeds produce complex carbohydrates called fucoidans, which play a role in carbon sequestration and show promise in medical and industrial applications. In his PhD research, Diego Sebastian R…
Exploring the potential of raffinose oligosaccharides from pulsesPhilipp Philipp Garbers' doctoral thesis argues that raffinose oligosaccharides (RFOs) found in peas and beans should not merely be degraded or removed, but instead isolated and purposefully used as f…
Who's picking your strawberries this summer?Migrant workers and the hidden realities behind Norway’s berry harvest.
Using mathematics to understand how the brain worksData and mathematics can help us analyze and simulate how networks of braincells work. This is the topic of Jan-Eirik Welle Skaar’s doctoral dissertation at NMBU.
Nitrogen cycling and crop productivity under Climate-Smart AgricultureTalent Namatsheve's research shows how conservation agriculture and biochar can affect crop productivity, soil fertility and emissions of greenhouse gases in low-input tropical systems, offering pract…
Feeding fungi with Norwegian spruce to produce biofuelCristian Bolaño Losada has researched how we can use a type of fungus, called Mucoromycota, to produce oils and other useful products in a sustainable way. He used Norwegian spruce as feedstock for th…
Norwegian consumers’ acceptance of sustainable dietary alternativesThe doctoral work of Sarah Wangui Muiruri concludes that the Norwegian acceptance for sustainable dietary alternatives is affected by trust, food choice motives, personality traits and socioeconomic f…
Tools for understanding how genetic differences affect important traitsThe aim of Dat Thanh Nguyen's doctoral work has been to create more accurate, efficient and scalable tools to link genetic variations to gene regulation, especially in the non-coding regions of the ge…
