NORAGRIC IN A NUTSHELL

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NORAGRIC IN A NUTSHELL
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UN Millennium Development Goals

• It is inconceivable that the UN Millennium
  Development Goals of reducing global poverty and
  hunger by half within the year 2015 can be
  fulfilled without a major effort to strengthen
  the agricultural sector and promote sustainable
  use of natural resources.

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Noragrics academic focus International
Environment and Development Studies

• What is International environment and
  development studies?
• Development studies is an interdisciplinary field
  of study examining processes of change in
  relation to human wellbeing in specific contexts
  and from different perspectives.
• Development is about improvements in life about
  expansion of peoples capabilities and freedom.
• International environment and development
  studies
• is an evolving multi- and inter-disciplinary
  field of study with particular focus on the
  linkages between environment and development.
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Noragric scientific competencelies in an
interdisciplinary approach which is closely
linked to the education programmes and
institutional collaboration

• Research activities, including the PhD programme
  in Development Studies, can be grouped in the
  following thematic areas
• Environmental Governance, Resource Rights and
  Livelihoods
• Conflict, Peace and Development
• Agricultural Development, Conservation and the
  Environment
• Climate Change and Development Adaptation and
  Mitigation
• Globalisation, Trade and Development
• Foreign Aid and development

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Ongoing research projectsI Environmental
Governance, Resource Rights Livelihoods

• Environmental Governance Protected Areas
  (ENGOPA)A cluster of three projects and several
  PhD projectsProtected Areas and Poverty in
  Africa (PAPIA) Uganda and Tanzania (2008-2012).
  Partners Noragric - Norwegian Institute for
  Nature Research (NINA) - Faculty of Forestry
  Nature Conservation, Makerere University.
  Noragric contact Prof. P. Vedeld Political
  Ecology of Devolution and Natural Resource
  Governance in Tanzania Community Based Forest
  Management (CBFM) and Wildlife Management Areas
  (WMA). Partners Noragric - Norwegian Institute
  for Nature Research (NINA) - Sokoine Univ. of
  Agriculture (SUA) - Institute of Resource
  Assessment (IRA), Univ. of Dar-es-Salaam,
  Tanzania. Noragric contact Prof. T. A.
  Benjaminsen Conservation of Biodiversity and
  Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in India.
  Partners Noragric - Ashoka Trust for Research in
  Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore,
  India.  Noragric contact Prof.  B. Sitaula

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I Environmental Governance, Resource Rights
Livelihoods (PhD research)

• Actors and Discourses Conflicting claims to the
  Dukuduku Forest, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
  (2007-2011).Contact Frode Sundnes  Conflicts
  and Decentralized Forest Management in Ethiopia
  (2004-2009).Partners Noragric Wondo Genet
  College of Forestry, EthiopiaContact Abebe
  Seifu Welde Tsadik.Social-Ecological Changes
  Affecting the Livelihoods of Fishing Communities
  in the Current Phase of Globalisation A case
  study from Mafia island, Tanzania. (2008
  2011)Partners Noragric - University of
  Dar-es-Salaam, TanzaniaContact Victoria
  Moshy 

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I Environmental Governance, Resource Rights
Livelihoods (PhD research cont.)

• The Effects of Increased Fishing Pressure on the
  Ecological Resilience of Targeted Groupers
  (Serranidae) and the Livelihoods of Fishing
  Families in Mafia island, Tanzania. (2008
  2011)Partners Noragric - University of
  Dar-es-Salaam, TanzaniaContact Lydia
  GaspareThe Transformation of Waso Boran
  Pastoral Production Crisis and Recovery An
  assessment of gender roles, land rights and
  poverty alleviation (2007-2010).Contact Zeinabu
  Khalif Social-Environmental History of Ancient
  Tula Wells in Borana, Southern Ethiopia
  18th-21st Century. (2006 2010).Partners
  Noragric - University of Hawassa,
  EthiopiaContact Waktole Tiki Uma

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I Environmental Governance, Resource Rights
Livelihoods (PhD research cont.)

• Can a Combination of Policy Instruments
  Increase the Effectiveness and Public
  acceptability of Environmental Policies in
  Norway. (2008-2011) Partners Noragric -
  CiceroContact Marianne Aasen Perceptions of
  Landscape Changes Among Stock Farmers in
  Namaqualand, South Africa (2004-2011).Partners
  Noragric - Programme for Land and Agrarian
  Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape,
  South AfricaContact Eirin Hongslo

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II Conflict, Peace Development

• Post-war Livelihood and Environmental Studies
  (2008-2012). The NUCOOP project Southern
  Sudan.Partners Noragric - Juba University,
  Sudan - Upper Nile University, Sudan. Noragric
  contact Dr Trygve Berg
• Resettlement of Returnees, Resource Conflicts
  and Livelihood Building in South Sudan An
  assessment of the institutions and their
  capacities at the local level in Eastern
  Equatoria (2009-2010).Partners Noragric - Juba
  University, SudanNoragric contact Prof. N.
  ShanmugaratnamOrigins and survival of maize and
  sorghum genetic resources in the Sobat corridor
  of the Upper Nile in the Sudan.Partners
  Noragric - Juba University - University of Upper
  Nile, Sudan. Noragric contact Dr. Trygve Berg

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II Conflict, Peace Development (cont.)

• In the Shadow of a Conflict Impacts of
  Zimbabwe's Land Reform on Rural Poverty and
  Development in Mozambique, South Africa and
  Zambia (2007-2010).Partners Noragric -
  Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
  (PLAAS), University of Western Cape, South
  Africa. Noragric contact Prof. Bill
  DermanProperty, Possession and Conflict in
  Re/Building Settlement (South Africa component in
  St Lucia Northern Natal).Partners Oslo School
  of Architecture - Norwegian University of Science
  and Technology (NTNU) - Noragric. Noragric
  contact Dr. Knut NustadLand Rights and
  Agrarian Change in Rural South Africa.Partners U
  niversity of Oslo (Norwegian Centre of Human
  Rights) and the Programme for Land and Agrarian
  Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape,
  South Africa. Noragric contact Prof. Bill Derman

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II Conflict, Peace Development (PhD research)

• Health Consequences of Civil War in
  Africa.Partners Noragric - International Peace
  Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo.Contact
  Christin OrmhaugThe Rise of Political Islam and
  the Global war on Terror The case of Somalia
  (2007-2010).Partners Noragric - Institute for
  Security Studies, Nairobi, KenyaContact Mohamed
  GuyoPolitics and Property Rights in Arsi East
  Shewa Zones, Ethiopia.Partners Noragric - Addis
  Ababa University, EthiopiaContact Hussein Jemma
  Sheymo

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III Agricultural Development, Conservation
Environment

• Facilitating the Adoption of Conservation
  Agriculture by Resource Poor Smallholder Farmers
  in Malawi (2007-2011).Partners Noragric -
  Agriculture Research and Development Program
  (ARDEP) - Bunda College, Malawi.Noragric
  contact Dr. Fred H. JohnsenThe ECOFARM project
  in Mali and Ethiopia.Partners Noragric -
  Drylands Coordination Group (DCG).Noragric
  contact Dr. Jens Aune

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III Agricultural Development, Conservation
Environment (PhD research)

• Impacts of Agricultural Intensification on
  Socio-economic Conditions and Soil and Water
  Quality in Kavre District, Nepal
  (2004-2009).Partners Noragric Kathmandu
  UniversityContact Bed Mani DahalReversing
  Household Food Insecurity Through Conservation
  Agriculture Socio-economic impact of
  conservation farming in Zambia (2008-2011).Partne
  rs Noragric - University of Zambia.Contact
  Progress Hanzwida NyangaReversing Environmental
  Degradation Through Conservation Agriculture in
  Zambia (2008-2011).Partners Noragric -
  University of ZambiaContact Bridget Bwalya
  Umar

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III Agricultural Development, Conservation
Environment (PhD research cont.)

• Environmental and Health Impacts of Pesticide
  Use in Central Nepal (2007-2011).Partners
  Noragric  - University of Kathmandu,
  Nepal.Contact Kishor AtreyaImpact of
  Agricultural Intensification on Biodiversity
  Loss, Soil Quality and Climate Gas Emission A
  comparative study from Nepal and India
  (2008-2011).Partners Noragric - Kathmandu
  University, Nepal.Contact Nani Raut

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IV Climate Change and Development Adaptation
Mitigation

• Biofuels and Rural Livelihoods
  (2008-2012).Partners Noragric - Sokoine
  University of Agriculture (SUA) - Tanzania
  Traditional Energy Development and Environment
  Organisation (TATEDO NGO), Dar es Salaam,
  Tanzania. Noragric contact Dr. Jens AuneREDD
  Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and
  Degradation in Tanzania (A major programme
  under preparation).Partners Noragric other
  departments at UMB - NORAD - International
  Institute for Environment and Development (IIED),
  UK. - Institute of Development Studies(IDS),
  Sussex, UK. Noragric contact Prof. Arild Vatn
• PhD researchTitle Carbon Sequestration
  Schemes Effects on Management of Tree Resources
  and Rural Poverty in Uganda (2004-2009).Partners
  Noragric - Makerere University, Uganda.Contact
  Charlotte Nakakaawa

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V Globalisation, Trade and Development

• PhD researchAfter Doha Bringing the Rights
  back In A strategic choice exploration of
  prospects for a social clause in the WTO
  (2006-2010).Contact Simon Pahle

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VI Foreign Aid and Development

• PhD researchState Formation and the Impact
  of Foreign aid in Malawi (2008-2011).Partners
  Noragric - University of MalawiContact Øyvind
  Eggen

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Norwegian South Eastern Europe (SEE/WB) Programme
in Agriculture

• 9 projects, 17 partner institutions in Albania,
  Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia,
  Serbia, Montenegro (8 countries).Partners 6 UMB
  Departments Bioforsk Forest   Norwegian
  Landscape Institute Norwegian School of
  Veterinary MedicineNoragric contact Dr. Mensur
  VegaraSustainable selection programme for
  salmonid strains of the river Neretva.Novel and
  local feed components for rainbow
  trout.Standardization of Technology and
  Chemical, Physical and Microbiological Quality
  Characteristics of Autochthonous White Pickled
  (Travnicki) and Hard  (Livanjski) Cheese in
  Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Norwegian South Eastern Europe (SEE/WB) Programme
in Agriculture (cont.)

• Teaching process improvement at faculties of
  forestry in Bosnia and Herzegovina Alignment of
  syllabus and curriculum with faculties of
  forestry which signed Bologna's
  declaration.Improving nutritional quality and
  safety of food and fodder crops in South Eastern
  Europe.Developing a Joint-Master programme in
  Agribusiness Economics and Marketing.Reorientati
  on of Academic Education in Agriculture in
  Southeast Europe - Curriculum Development in
  Animal Breeding and Animal Husbandry.GIS and
  remote sensing for mapping and monitoring in
  forestry and agriculture.Plant Health and
  Genetic Resources in South East Europe.

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Noragrics role

• Academic responsibility for International
  Environment and Development Studies at UMB
  including Research Education
• International gateway for UMB, the Norwegian
  School of Veterinary Science (NVH) and Norwegian
  Agricultural Research International (NARI)
• Cooperation with national and international
  academic and professional institutions
• Environmental competence centre for NORAD and
  Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Noragrics vision

• through
• collaborative activities that
• generate and exchange
• knowledge and provide
• education in the
• area of
• agricultural development,
• livelihood security and
• natural resource management.

• Noragric aims to
• contribute towards
• equitable
• development,
• sustained
• well-being
• of women and
• men, and sound
• environmental practices

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Noragrics education programmes

• Bachelors degree Programme in Development
  Studies
• Masters degree Programme in International
  Environmental Studies
• Masters degree Programme in Development Studies
• Masters degree Programme in Conflict, Peace and
  Development
• PhD degree Programme in Development Studies

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Where our students come from? (2006, 2007 and
2008)

• We have students representing many nationalities.
• Bachelor in DS 96 students fromPakistan,
  Nepal, Liberia, Tanzania, Somalia, Zimbabwe,
  Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Ethiopia, The
  Ukraine, Croatia, South-Africa, Zambia, Uganda,
  Camerun, and Norway.
• Master in DS 61 students fromSerbia, Ethiopia,
  Ghana, The Ukraine, Hungary, Gambia, Nepal,
  Uganda, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Pakistan, USA,
  Albania, Rwanda, Canada, Iran, China, Somalia,
  Guinea, Camerun, and Norway.
• Master in IES 50 students fromUK, Ethiopia,
  Italy, Tanzania, Latvia, Serbia, Nepal, China,
  Ghana, Nigeria, Brasil, Uganda, Australia,
  Serbia, Pakistan, Bangladsh, Israel, Switzerland,
  and Norway.
• PhD in DS 28 students from Norway, Kenya,
  Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia, Nepal, Pakistan and
  Island.

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Students admitted to the Masters degree
programmein Development Studies in 2006, 2007
and 2008 come from these countries
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Universities with which Noragric has Exchange
Agreements
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Bachelors degree programme in Development Studies

• Interdisciplinary study programme
• Combines knowledge within different disciplines
  (ecology, water- and soil science, economy,
  anthropology and other social sciences)
• Courses are offered within areas such as -
  Access and rights to resources - Biodiversity,
  climate and conventions - Poverty, aid and
  economy
• The first English Bachelors programme at a
  Norwegian university

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Masters Programme in International Environmental
Studies

• The objectives of the programme are to
• (1) Offer an interdisciplinary approach to
  relationships between development and the
  environment in developing countries
• (2) Raise professional capacities of planners,
  managers, NGO staff and teachers in these
  countries, and
• (3) Equip participants with relevant analytical
  techniques and tools for direct implementation
• Sustainable natural resource management (NRM) is
  an integrated activity of decision making and
  implementing processes involving people,
  institutions and nature.
• Noragric has been running this two-year Masters
  programme since 1986. Students are recruited from
  countries in the South and North. More than 600
  students have graduated since the start.

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Masters Programme in Development Studies (DS)

• This programme gives a broad understanding of
  social science perspectives of development, as
  well as more specialised knowledge on
  technological, biological, agronomic, and
  economic approaches to innovation, income
  generation, and sustainable resource management.
  
• The programme is a collaboration between several
  departments at the Norwegian University of Life
  Sciences.
• Students are encouraged to take courses and doing
  fieldwork abroad in the third semester.

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PhD in Development Studies

• Noragrics PhD programme in Development Studies
• 3-4 years duration of studies
• Mandatory and elective courses and a major
  research component
• Mandatory courses Development theories,
  Environment-Development relations, Research
  methodologies and Philosophy of science
• Electives chosen according to the students
  research interests
• Options for PhD research project Development
  Studies/Environment Development Studies
• Admission requirements
• High quality and research based Masters degree
• Proficiency in the English language
• Highly quality research proposal approved by
  Noragric
• Financial guarantee

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Institutional cooperation

• Institutional cooperation is a central activity
  area at Noragric, closely linked to research and
  education.
• Noragric has agreements with more than 30
  partners in Africa, Asia, Latin America and South
  Eastern Europe.
• Most of these are with universities some are
  with civil society organisations, research
  foundations and public institutions.
• The programmes include joint research and
  education activities as well as support to
  institutional development.

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Collaborating institutions in Africa

• Ethiopia Hawassa University and Mekelle
  University
• Malawi Bunda College of Agriculture, University
  of Malawi
• South Africa University of Western Cape,
  (PLAAS)
• SudanJuba University and Upper Nile
  University  
• TanzaniaSokoine University of Agriculture and
  University of Dar es Salaam
• UgandaMakerere University
• ZambiaConservation Farming Unit under Zambia
  National Farmers Union
• Zambia MozambiqueUniversity of Zambia /
  Catholic University of Mozambique  

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Collaborating institutions in Asia and America

• Nepal Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu
  University
• PakistanCOMSATS Institute of Information
  Technology
• Sri Lanka University of Ruhuna and Eastern
  University
• India Green Foundation and Ashoka Trust for
  Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
• BrazilInstituto Socioambiental (ISA)
• Costa Rica and CanadaEARTH University/
  University of British Columbia

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Collaborating institutions in Europe

• Albania  Agricultural University of Tirana
• Bosnia-Herzegovina University of Banja Luka
  / Univ. of Mostar / Univ. 'DzB' of Mostar / Univ.
  of Sarajevo
• CroatiaJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of
  Osijek
• Kosovo University of Prishtina
• Macedonia University of St. Cyril and Methodius
  of Skopje
• Montenegro University of Montenegro
• Serbia University of Belgrade and University of
  Novi Sad 
• United KingdomUniversity of East Anglia

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Networks and agreements

• Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) framework
  agreement with the NGO-driven forum that
  exchanges practical experience and knowledge on
  food security and natural resource management in
  the drylands of Africa. www.drylands-group.org
• Framework agreement with NORAD Noragric offers
  scientific advisory services, usually in the
  form of consultancy assignments and evaluations,
  in the field of agriculture, development,
  environment and food security.
• UNEP Grid-Arendal ongoing cooperation, mainly
  scientific advisory services
• Norwegian Church Aid, Afghanistan
• Norwegian Peoples Aid, Angola and Sudan
• Chr. Michelsen Institute framework agreement
  with NORAD (focusing on good governance)
• Peacecorps (NORAD-funded ESD exchange for
  sustainable development programme)

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The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)

• Established in 1859 as a national post-graduate
  college
• Reorganised as an institution for higher
  agricultural learning and research in 1897
• Received Norwegian university status in 2005
• 8 departments and a central administration
• 3150 students (2008)
• 850 Bachelor - 1850 Master - 350 Other
• 380 PhD and post-graduate students
• 940 staff - of which 495 are scientific

• Offers 2-, 3- and 5-year academic studies
  Bachelor, Masters and PhD degree programmes
• 3-week Summer University

• Read and see more UMB in a nutshell

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Department of International Environment and
Development Studies (Noragric)

• Our research, education and institutional
  collaboration activities are focused primarily,
  but not exclusively, on developing countries and
  countries with economies in transition. The
  department has more than 20 years collaboration
  with academic and professional institutions in
  Africa, Asia and South East Europe.
• Some facts (2008-2009)
• Established in 1986 as a centre at the Agr. Univ.
  of Norway
• Became academic department in 2005
• 45 staff members (some part-time) 25 scientific
  and 13 administrative staff
• 28 PhD students
• ? Master students
• 96 Bachelor students

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Norwegian University of Life Sciences
organigramme
University Board / Rector
Executive Director
Central Administration Information, Library
Computing Finance Personnel Organisation Buildi
ng Service Maintenence Property Planning
Development
International Environment and Development
Studies, Noragric
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Noragric organigramme
UNIVERSITY BOARD
Head of Department(Board Chair)
Financial advisor
Head of Research(Chair of RC)
Research Committee(RC)
Personnel advisor
Education coordination
Research coordination
Library
Administrative staff
S c i e n t i f i c s t a f f P h D s t u
d e n t s
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Noragric clients and partners
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Institutional cooperation (1)

• Noragric/UMB is engaged in institutional
  cooperation with universities and other research
  and development organisations in Africa, Asia and
  South Eastern Europe
• Major activities are joint research, education,
  staff and student exchange and institutional
  capacity-building
• Institutional cooperation is aimed to support
  equitable local and global development with
  regard to natural resources, agriculture and
  livelihoods

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Institutional cooperation (2)
America Brazil Institutio Socioambiental
(ISA) Costa Rica and Canada Earth Univ./Univ.
of British Columbia
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Research

• Establish Development Studies as an academic
  field at UMB
• Supplementary competence to UMB/NVH/NARI
• Capacity building in the South
• Interdisciplinarity social and natural sciences
• Improving the scientific basis for policy
  decisions
• Independent and critical research
• Research-based education
• Research Committee facilitating and coordinating
  role

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• Development
• Ecological Applications
• Acta Oecologica
• Global Change Biology
• Bioscience
• Journal of African Ecology
• Environmental Conservation
• Food Policy
• Development Dialogue
• Development Policy Review
• Development and Change
• Forum for Development Studies
• Journal of Arid Environments
• The European Journal of Development Research

Publications Noragric staff publish in some of
the fields top journals
Link to Noragric Publications page
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But, recently we have also published in a number
of other prestigious journals, e.g.
Global Environmental Change, Science, Agronomy
Abstracts, Soil Science, Journal of Environmental
Quality, Disasters, Journal of Sustainable
Agriculture, Social Anthropology, Euphytica,
Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution,
Jurimetrics, Journal of the Patent and Trademark
Office Society, Ambio, Journal of
Ethnopharmacology, Hydrobiologia, Arid
Environments Journal, Journal of Humanitarian
Assistance, Outlook on Agriculture, Agriculture
and Rural Development, Agroforestry Systems,
Biopolicy Journal, Applied Ecology, Small
Ruminant Research, Journal of Agricultural
Education and Extension, Journal of Environmental
Management, Animal Feed Science and Technology,
Current Anthropology, Landscape Ecology,
Intellectual Property Strategy Today, Issues in
Plant Genetic Resources, Advances in GeoEcology,
Southern Cultures, Environmental Conservation,
Journal of Technology Law and Policy, Land
Degradation and Development, Game and Wildlife
Science, and Agricultural Economics
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UMB Health Health and Development Programme

• In December 2005, UMB launched its newest
  research programme Health UMB.
• The programme includes both educational and
  research activities concerning preventative and
  rehabilitative health.
• Health UMB will develop a common academic
  platform visible through both a seminar series
  and a publication series.
• Three research programmes are included in the
  initiative Food and Health Nature, Health and
  Quality of Life and Health and Development.
• The programme Health and Development is
  centered at Noragric
• It is an interdisciplinary programme drawing upon
  staff from most of UMBs departments.
• Over time, it is expected that the programme will
  also come to include many of our collaborative
  partners.
• At present, three areas have been included
  poverty and health sanitation and health and
  food safety and environmental risk.

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Dissemination of information

• Noragric Library- part of UMB's library network
  
• - supports education and research needs for
  tailored information services
• - closely integrated with Noragrics
  professional activities
• - active in international networking
• - cooperates with Eldis on www.eldis.org/norway
  Link to the Noragric Library page
• Publications and other communication output
• - Annual Report, brochures and publications
  such as scientific articles and books, but also
  Noragric Reports, Working Papers, PhD
  Dissertations, Masters Theses etc. incl.
  audiovisual presentations such as this Noragric
  slideshow and cinema ad on education
  Information dissemination page Publications
  page Links to individual researchers
  publications from Staff page
• Noragric website http//www.umb.no/noragric/

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How to find Noragric
- For TRANSPORT information incl. timetables,
MAPs etc. take a look at Noragric Contact us page
Developer Evy Jørgensen Photography Josie
Teurlings, Pål Wisborg, Gry Synnevåg, Jens Aune,
Fred Håkon Johnsen, Evy Jørgensen, Shekar
Nagothu, Bishal Sitaula, cooperating institutions
abroad, UMB photo archives.