Member Profile for Noragric, Ås
Noragric is one of five departments in the Faculty of Landscape and Society. Since its establishment in 1986 as a centre at the former Norwegian Agricultural University, Noragric has played an important role in developing institutional collaboration agreements with the university's many partners in Africa, Asia and South East Europe. These collaborations not only offer NMBU students the opportunity to take part of their studies abroad, but also for NMBU to welcome students and researchers to Ås.
Noragric staff and students engage in interdisciplinary studies on a wide range of issues concerning poverty, livelihoods, gender, property rights, environmental management, conflict, peace building and post-conflict development in sub-Saharan Africa, South- and Southeast Asia and South America.
Study at Noragric
At Noragric, there is focus on social justice, environmental sustainability, ecological and social resilience, political ecology, natural resource management, resource conflicts, development policies and politics, the effects of planned development interventions and gender and development issues.
The department offers Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes in international environment and development studies and international relations.
Research
Research and academic staff at Noragric are organised into four thematic clusters. These clusters are closely linked to the department's education programmes and institutional collaborations:
- Environmental Governance
- Conflict, Human Security and Development
- Climate Change and Agricultural Development
- Rights, Accountability and Power in Development
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Courses
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BA; Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Noragric)
The Bachelor programme in Development Studies is an interdisciplinary programme where different theoretical approaches together give insight in different and often overlapping disciplines, both within social and natural science. The programme provides basic knowledge within several disciplines like social anthropology, ecology, resource management and economy, and how to use this knowledge to find solutions to specific interdisciplinary problems.This study programme seeks to develop basic knowledge within different disciplines (ecology, water- and soil science, land planning, economy, social anthropology and other social sciences) and apply this knowledge in an interdisciplinary way when addressing actual problems.
Courses are offered within areas such as:
• Resources and conflicts
• Biodiversity, climate and conventions
• Poverty, aid and economy
You will also get a chance to study at another institution. An exchange semester will be arranged at a university in a developing country where applied courses in rural and urban development will be offered.
Exchange programmes are also available at universitites in Canada, England and the Netherlands. The exchange is not covered financially by UMB, but it is supported by the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund.
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