Mirriam Phiri (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend her PhD thesis "Effect of biochar and crop rotation with pigeon pea on plant available phosphorus under Conservation Agriculture" Friday the 15th of Novemer, 2024.
PhD degree - trial lecture and defense
English title of thesis
“Effect of biochar and crop rotation with pigeon pea on plant available phosphorus under Conservation Agriculture”
Norwegian title of thesis
Effekt av biokull og vekstskifte med ertebønne på plantetilgjengelig fosfor under Conservation Agriculture
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture
“Agroecology and Food Security: Pathways for Resilient Farming Systems in African Agriculture”
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence
Friday 15 November 2024, at 12.15 at Gullvepsen, Bikuben
Zoom:
All are welcome to attend, either physically or digitally, but please read the guidelines below before you open the link. This is to make sure that the disputation can be held without interruptions and noise.
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Associate Professor Mona Bakke Myrvang (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, INN, Norway)
Second opponent: Dr. Patrick Musinguzi (Makerere University, Uganda)
Committee coordinator: Professor Åsgeir Almås (MINA/NMBU)
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Professor Vegard Martinsen (MINA/NMBU)
Co-supervisors: Professor Jan Mulder (MINA/NMBU) and Dr. Benson H. Chishala (University of Zambia, Zambia)
Guidelines for digital attendance:
- Do not use the camera.
- Mute your microphone.
- In Zoom you will first be placed in the waiting room. Please introduce yourself with your name, rather than with your IP address or computer name.
- If anyone has a question and wants to oppose ‘ex auditorio’, please write in the chat window of Zoom (1) “XY (your name) has a question" and (2) the question in brief. The chair of the defense will evaluate whether your question is opportune, and you will be given the word after the two opponents have concluded.
- When you are being given the word, you switch on your microphone and camera. Ensure briefly whether you are being heard.
- We advise you to test your own equipment before attending.
- The chat is not to be used for general discussions.
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no.