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Publisert: 04.12.2018

Sist oppdatert: 15.06.2024

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Farmer's rights

Local seed systems

Community seed banks and development

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Academic background

Full professor competence (2020)
Dr. Polit., University of Oslo (2007)
Diplom Politologin (equivalent to Cand. polit.), Free University of Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences (1991)

Professional experience

Research Director, Biodiversity and Natural Resources, FNI (since May 2020).
Research Professor/Senior Research Fellow/Researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute since 1995 (with a break 2013–2017), engaged in research, project development and management, presentations and other dissemination activities, organization of meetings and seminars, moderation/facilitation of international consultations processes, and consultancies (mainly evaluations).
Executive Director, Oikos – Organic Norway (January 2013 – May 2017).
Member of the Governing Board of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) (since 2022)
Member of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Farmers’ Rights under the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (since 2018).

Projects

Project name

Status

Sustainability, self-sufficiency, and local food preparedness: A safer value chain for locally adapted varieties of food plants in Norway (The Seed Preparedness Project)

Ongoing

Governing sustainable energy use in the neighbourhood (NABOBRUK)

Ongoing

Unfolding the Potentials of Community Seed Banks for Food and Nutrition Security among Smallholder Farmers in India through the Realization of Farmers’ Rights (DIVERSIFARM-India)

Ongoing

China's role in supply chains of critical minerals and metals: consequences for Norway

Ongoing

Out of the shade? Solar development challenges in Norway (SOLNOR)

Ongoing

Norwegian Centre on Geopolitics (GEOPOL)

Ongoing

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Publications

Books

Knausgaard in Context

Iver B. Neumann (ed)

Scandinavian University Press, 2025, 206 p.

China-Russia Relations in the Arctic: Friends in the Cold?

Iselin Stensdal and Gørild Heggelund (eds)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 257 p.

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

As global leaders, Canada and Norway’s co-operation is timely in the face of surging energy demand

Ian Rowlands & Siddharth Sareen

The Converastion, February 11, 2025

The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research

Benjamin Sovacool, Frank Willem Geels, Allan Dahl Andersen, Michael Grubb, Andrew J. Jordan, Florian Kern, Paula Kivimaa, Lockwood Matthew, Jochen Markard, James Robert (...)

Energy Research & Social Science, Vol 121, March 2025, Article No. 103948

States, global power and access to medicines: a comparative case study of China, India and the United States, 2000–2019

Berit S. H. Hembre, Maulik Chokshi, Steven J. Hoffman, Fatima Suleman, Steinar Andresen, Kristin Sandberg and John-Arne Røttingen

Globalization and Health, Vol 21, No 3, 2025, 18 p. DOI: 10.1186/s12992-024-01092-2

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News

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