Noragric seminars and guest lectures are open for anyone who is interested.
Noragric Seminars invite researchers to present their work for feedback and discussion. We also invite guest lecturers to present results of their research and to discuss challenges at the global, regional and local levels. Thursday seminars are organised by the scientific clusters at Noragric.
March 19 • The RAPID (Rights and Power in Development) Cluster at Noragric cordially invites you to attend the department seminar: Fractured ground: Critical Perspectives on Resource Conflict and Resolution in Latin America. Venue: Thor Larsen Loft, Tivoli Building, UMB Ås. Time: Monday February 13th 2012, 10.15 - 12.00.
How does extraction challenges, transform and also disintegrates people’s sociality and experience of well-being? Can governments’ and industries’ claims of increased participation of affected communities in key decisions regarding extraction and infrastructure projects in their territories be substantiated? Can extraction be analyzed as value transformations concerning vital resources that are given commodified value and made of national concern, whilst remaining essential to local peoples wellbeing?
There is an increasing frequency of conflicts related to the intensification and expansion of extractive related activities and use of non-renewable and renewable resources in Latin America. Strategic alliances between governments and corporations and related infrastructure programmes have been argued to constitute the development of new form of extractive governance in the region. Governments and industries claim that this “new wave” of extraction is “sustainable”, where social and economic benefits are guaranteed and existing rights and conventions are not only being respected, but expanded through political and legal reforms. Despite this there are a growing number of confrontations between states, corporations and affected communities, in particular clashes between indigenous communities and the police/military premised on the lack of participation, consent and consultation.
In this seminar we want to discuss whether participatory tools are effective and appropriate tools for application in contexts of what are often intense and historically embedded resource conflicts where conflicting theories of value are at play. We furthermore critically investigate the issue of consensus and participation implicit in mechanisms and legal instruments of conflict resolution.
InvitedGuest Discussants: Marie-Therese Gustafsson. Doctoral Candidate. Political Science. University of Stockholm Maria Guzman-Gallegos. Senior Consultant. Rainforest Foundation Axel Borchgrevinck. Senior Researcher. NUPI
January 12 • Bærekraftige drueklaser og epleklynger - Comparison of environmental sustainability in two agriculture based tourism micro-clusters in Australia and Norway.What drives environmental action? To what extent is environmental action related to innovation and competitiveness?
Speaker: Sidsel Grimstad, PhD candidate at Newcastle University, NSW, Australia. Since her graduation from UMB in 1985, she has worked in environmental management, agricultural policies and development, including 8 years at Noragric.
Time: 12:15-13:45 Venue: Tivoli, Thor Larsen Loft
January 12 • “Is there a new U.S. foreign policy in progress? Do networking, partnering, and ‘playing in the middle of the pack’ in foreign policy signify a durable new U.S. foreign policy approach?” Speaker: Prof. David Barton, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. David Barton has over thirty years experience in national security and foreign policy, working with the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives and the State Department.
November 17 • Seminar by Karim Merchant, Senior Advisor to the Minister for Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) in Afghanistan.
Title: Understanding Development in Afghanistan: An exploration of competing international, national and sub-national perspectives and practice
Mr Merchant has experience as Policy Advisor, Program Designer and Project Manager with twenty-five years of experience in emergency relief, conflict and post-conflict sustainable rural development, institutional and community empowerment, and small enterprise development, working with governments, UN agencies and international and national NGOs, across Africa, Central and South Asia and the Middle East.
Date: 17th of November Time: 14:15-15:30 Venue: Parkgården 107
September
September 22 • Seminar by Dr. J. Marc Foggin, Director, Plateau Perspectives (Canada/China). Topic: People-centered approaches to conservation and environmental management are now being trialed near the source of the Yangtze River in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. The development of the Kegawa Herders’ Cooperative is discussed as an example of a new form of local governance, as well as the introduction of (and most recently, plans to replicate widely across the region) what is now known as Community Co-Management for wildlife protection and natural resource management in Muqu village.
Title of the presentation: Collaborative management of environmental resources on the Tibetan Plateau: A view from the headwaters of the Yangtze River in Qinghai Province, China. | Abstract |
• September 21 Lars Otto Næss (IDS, Sussex) is visiting us from September 19th to 27th. He is a researcher in the climate group at IDS and has wide experience in research on vulnerability and adaptation both in developing and developed contexts (such as Norway, Tanzania and Ethiopia).
He will be presenting his research from 10 am in the Thor Larsen loft on the 21th of September. Title of the presentation: "Policy processes, climate change and agriculture: International, national and local perspectives".
• September 20 Joint seminar with ILP regarding a research project regarding Potential for and limits to adaptation in Norway (PLAN) that both ILP and Noragric are part of.
There are two presentations: 1. Inger-Lise Saglie and Knut Bjørn Stokke "Planning for climate change adaptation in urban areas" 2. Siri Eriksen "Adapting to climate change in a rural community in Norway: the case of Øystre Slidre".
These presentations are based on book chapters that we are submitting to a book about the project, and your feedback will be very useful to us in the writing process.
This seminar will take place on the 20th of September at 10 in the Thor Larsen loft.
Organiser(s): Gry Synnevåg and Joanna Boddens-Hosang
Time: 09:00-09:45: Presentation by Wendy Quarry 09:45-10.30: Discussion and questions • August 18 'CBNRM (Community Based Natural Resource Management), governance and scale.' Main Speaker: Brian Child Child is an Associate Professor at the Centre for African Studies and Department of Geography at the University of Florida, he is internationally renowned for his work with protected area management,co-management and community based natural resource management in southern Africa. Amongst others, Child has played key roles in the well-known CAMPFIRE (Communal Areas Management Programme For Indigenous Resources) in Zimbabwe, in the SLAMU (South Luangwa Area Management Unit) programme in Zambia and has also been Chair of IUCN's (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Southern Africa Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SASUSG).
• June 7 Conflict and Human Security and Development The CHSD cluster is pleased to announce a seminar which falls within the broad realm of security and development with focus on Afghanistan.
Karim Merchant will be the main speaker and give a talk on two topics: ‘Multi-stakeholder dynamics in Afghanistan - past and present’ and ‘Building social capital in the rural communities of Afghanistan - The evolution of the National Solidarity Program (NSP).’
He is a senior Advisor to the Minister for Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) in Afghanistan and has an over ten year experience on working with rural development issues in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ingrid Nyborg will be the main discussant.
Time: 12:15-14:00 Venue: Thor Larsen Loft May
• May 26 Security and Development: A Camouflaged Peace. Organiser(s): RAPID cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
This event is being organized as a round table debate and involves several resource persons as discussants. They include Arne Strand (CMI Bergen), John-Andrew McNeish (Noragric/CMI) and Ingrid Nyborg (Noragric). Venue: TL loft 12:15-14:15.
• May 19 Bovine tuberculosis at the wildlife/livestock/human interface at the Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (Zimbabwe-Mozambique-South Africa). Organiser(s): ENGOPA cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
The main speaker will be Prof. Jacques Godfroid, Head of the Arctic Veterinary Medicine Section, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria and his talk will focus on wildlife health in conservation areas and its implications and impacts on domestic animals, human health and livelihoods. Venue: TL loft 12:15-13:45.
• May 5 Where is Power in Political Ecology? Organiser(s): RAPID cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
The main speaker will be Bill Derman. Venue: TL loft 12:15-13:45.
• May 2 Organiser(s): ENGOPA cluster Category: Noragric seminar/external speaker
Dr. Marja Spierenburg from Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam will present some of her work and ideas on land right, land use and land reform. Venue: Stein Bie room 12-13.00
• April 28 Organiser(s): ADLEC cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
The Rural Poor & Agro-food markets: Case studies from Eastern Cape and Limpopo, South Africa' Dr. Peter Jacobs and Mr.Mogau Aphane (University of Western Cape) Venue: TL loft 12:15-14
• April 14 Organiser(s): RAPID and ENGOPA clusters Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
From Resettlement to Game Parks: Analytical and Theoretical Reflections Dr Marja Spierenburg (Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam) Venue: TL loft 12:30- 14
February
• February 17 Dr. Bahadar Nawab, Comsats Human Security and Development in Post-Conflict / Post Flood Swat Venue: Parkgarden 207: 12:15 -14:00
• February 10 Organiser(s): GOVCLIM cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
Sjur Kasa (CICERO) The Effects of REDD on Brazilian Climate Policy Venue: TL loft 12:30 - 13:45
December
• December 13 Organiser(s): GOVCLIM cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
Violeta Dirimanova, Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Marketing at the Faculty of Economics, Agricultural University Plovdiv, Bulgaria and a visiting post doc at the Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University, Berlin Economic Effects of Land Fragmentation: Property Rights, Markets and Contracts in Bulgaria Venue: TL loft 12:15 - 13:30
• December 9 Organiser(s): RAPID cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
Malcolm Langford - Research Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights Socio-economic rights and natural resources: State of the art in struggles over water rights in South Africa Venue: TL loft 12:15 - 13:30
November
• November 15 Organiser(s):- ENGOPA cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
Jon Geir Petursson - Reearch fellow, Noragric Going transboundary? Institutional and organizational analyses of transboundary protected area management challenges. The case of Mt. Elgon, Uganda and Kenya. Thor Larsen loft: 12:15 - 13:30
• November 11 Organiser(s): ADLEC cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
Fred H. Johnsen - Professor, Noragric The Role of Governments and Markets in Development Venue: TL loft 12:15 - 13:30
October
• October 28 Organiser(s): GOVCLIM cluster Category: Noragric Thursday seminar
Audun Rosland - Special envoy for climate and forest at the Norwegian Ministry of the Environment What can we expect from Cancun? - General Issues and Issues for REDD Location: T401 (Tower Building) - 12:15 - 13:30 http://statisk.umb.no/nlh_english/mapjpg.htm
