Getting Ready! A Study of National Governance Structures for REDD+

P. Vedeld / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011

REDD – reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation – is a core issue under the ongoing climate negotiations. One aspect concerns what the REDD or REDD+ governance structures – both int...

Development of national producer organizations and specialized business units in Mozambique

R. Kaarhus (ed);P. Woodhouse (ed) / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012

This report aims to provide a solid basis for decision-making on the further development of national producer organizations and specialized input business units in Mozambique. It reviews the expe...

Rural development in Swat, Pakistan: Understanding food and livelihood security in post-conflict contexts

I. Nyborg (ed);B. Nawab (ed);K. Khan (ed) / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012

In Pakistan, the Norwegian Embassy is supporting several international and local NGOs as well as several UN agencies in humanitarian and development activities in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including S...

Pastoral pathways: climate change adaptation lessons from Ethiopia

S. Eriksen (ed);A. Marin (ed) / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011

A key aim of the Norwegian Development Fund is to increase the adaptive capacity of marginalised rural poor farmers and pastoralists in the South.  The focus country of this project study, Ethiop...

Community Markets For Conservation Programme (COMACO) Phase II: appraisal of the proposal to the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Lusaka, Zambia

S.W. Bie;E. Kuntashula;Lewis K. Mughogho / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

This paper reviews the proposal for a Phase II of the Community Markets for Conservation Programme (COMACO) in Zambia. The programme is seen as a tool to offer poachers and charcoal burners incentives...

Participatory research and capacity building of institutions in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Report)

I. Nyborg;B. Nawab;O. Hanserud / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

This paper summarises the events of a workshop on institutional collaboration in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The workshop was held in Pakistan in March 2009, and discussed the participatory research in ...

From forest reserve to national park: change in legal status and impacts on livelihoods and biodiversity resources, Mt. Elgon, Uganda

G. Ditiro;P. Vedeld;W. Gombya-Ssembajjwe / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

Uganda is well endowed with natural resources and some 24 per cent is at present under forest cover. However, as in most Africa countries, Uganda’s forests are in decline. Mount Elgon forest ...

Trade, environment and development: import of flowers from Africa to Norway

R. Haug;I. Ohna;A. Jens / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

How can increased African agricultural imports achieve environmental sustainability? This study examines how it is possible to increase import of agricultural products from low income sub-Saharan A...

Post-war development and the land question in South Sudan

N. Shanmugaratnam / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

The Land Question (LQ) was one of the core issues behind the protracted war between the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/Army in the southern regions of the c...

Pedagogy of the powerful: engaging critically with the new transnational development advocacy

S. Pahle / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

Arguably, major obstacles to poverty reduction, dignity and security for the world’s poor and oppressed sit in the Global North; in the way through which Northern governments, corporations an...