Noragric Seminar series: Lecture by Prof A. Pain from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
WebmasterNoragric will have the pleasure of a visit on Friday, May 23rd, by Prof. Adam Pain, Professor at the Department fo Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden. He has done extensive research on Rural Livelihoods in Afghanistan, and is co-editor and contributor to the book 'Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan' (2007).
Prof. Pain will give a presentation in Noragric's lecture series on the following topic:
'Understanding Livelihood Trajectories and Poverty Outcomes in Afghanistan:
issues of method and approach - a discussion on methodological challenges.'
The lecture will be at 13:15 in Thor Larsen Loft, with ample time for discussion afterwards before our Friday coffee.
More about Adam Pain:
Adam Pain has combined a career of working in theory and practice in Rural Development. A lecturer in Natural Resources in Development Studies, UK from 1976 – 1987, he worked in natural resource management in Africa & Asia, working in Sri Lanka 1979-81. In 1987 he led a SADDC regional research programme based in Botswana.
From 1992 to 2000 he worked as principle advisor to the Minister of Agriculture in Bhutan on research and extension policy and natural resource management including running a long term EU agricultural support services. In 2001 he rejoined Development Studies, UK as a Senior Research Fellow and since then has worked extensively in Afghanistan on rural economy and change and worked with research programmes on Natural Resource management (forestry) in Nepal and India.
Since January 2006 he has held the position of Visiting Professor in Rural Development at SLU, Uppsala, combining postgraduate teaching, support to a Vietnam Masters in Rural Development programme and continuing to work on the opium economy, rural change and policy making practices in Afghanistan and tribal livelihoods and biodiversity management in southern India. He is the co-principle investigator of an ESRC UK funded research programme on livelihood trajectories in Afghanistan. He has published extensively on Bhutan and Afghanistan and is preparing an edited book on rural change in Vietnam.
-- A. Pain's short CV
Anyone who's interested in the topic is welcome!
Updated: 13.05.08
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Del med en venn:
Department of International Environment and Development Studies
- Noragric
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00
Fax: +47 64 96 52 01
E-mail: noragric@umb.no
Postal address:
Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
P.O. Box 5003
NO-1432 Aas
Norway
Visiting/delivery address:
Universitetstunet 1 (Tivoli)
NO-1432 Ås
Phone: +47 64 96 52 00
Fax: +47 64 96 52 01
E-mail: noragric@umb.no
Postal address:
Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
P.O. Box 5003
NO-1432 Aas
Norway
Visiting/delivery address:
Universitetstunet 1 (Tivoli)
NO-1432 Ås