Long read: A Mayan quest for a market economy
Written by Noé Mendoza, PhD Fellow at Noragric. Protected by the jungle canopy, crickets and frogs emit a gnawing chorus. There’s a moment in the early hours of the morning when […]
Natural Resource Management
Norway’s next industrial adventure is built on lithium
Written by Anna-Sophie Hobi, PhD Fellow, Noragric Several companies are currently planning to build battery cell Gigafactories in Norway. Although the emerging industry is promising new ‘green’ economic growth for […]
Winners and Losers at COP25
Well, if everything happens for a reason, then the crooked ‘P’ is representative of this conference Tomohiro Harada spent almost 2 long weeks at the Conference of the Parties (COP) […]
Bittersweet fruits: Costa Rican pineapples and the road ahead for ecological conservation
Olav B. Soldal offers his impressions from a trip to Costa Rica earlier this year where he was part of an NMBU field course working with a community struggling to […]
Mat, miljø og media
Ola Tveitereid Westengen, Førsteamanuensis, Noragric, NMBU Kjøtt og klima – og andre sammenhenger mellom mat, mennesker og miljø er i fokus i samfunnsdebatten. Norge har til og med fått en […]
Indigenous Peoples: Moving beyond the UNFCCC Platform
Noragric PhD Fellow Tomohiro Harada on the UN’s recent Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in Bonn. Indigenous peoples are no longer ’observers’ at the UNFCCC. As effective ’contributors’ to […]
What happened to the Spirit of Paris? Indigenous Peoples at COP24 in Katowice, Poland
Written by Tomohiro Harada, PhD Fellow, Noragric This last week 30,000 people from across the world gathered at the heart of Europe’s coal mining region to address the biggest threat to […]
Floods in Kerala – a wake-up call
In light of the devastating floods of August 2018, the state needs to introspect on its approach to development. Written by Hans Nicolai Adam, Postdoctoral Fellow, Noragric The worst floods […]
Power and Strategies of Resistance – Visible, Invisible and Hidden Resistance
Written by Shai Divon, Head of Department, Noragric. This post is one of a series that will explore the aims and conceptual bases of the Noragric-led Greenmentality project. First published in the […]
Mentalities of greening, governing, and getting rich
Written by Connor Cavanagh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Noragric. This post is one of a series that will explore the aims and conceptual bases of the Noragric-led Greenmentality project. First published in the […]