Browsing Brage NMBU by Author "Nicolaysen, Anna Marie"
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Agroecological practice : the relevance of permaculture-based land-design for sustainability and resilience on the farm : a case study in Gopta village, West Bengal, India
Baradia, Sumit (Master thesis, 2021)Intensive agriculture does not only adversely affect farmland biodiversity but also causes rapid environmental degradation. Harmful chemicals involved in such high-yielding industrial agriculture have led to consumers’ and ... -
Alternative Food Networks : a question about farmers’ resilience
Berg, Kirsti (Master thesis, 2016-08-11)The aim of this study is to explore how different AFNs contribute to Norwegian organic farmers resilience. This is done by looking into the various food networks a handful of farmers are engaged in. The value-chains are ... -
Backwardness or innovation : the Norwegian farming community as a hindrance or support for increased and more environment-friendly vegetable production
Brennsæter, Jofrid (Master thesis, 2019)This master thesis presents and discusses findings from in-depth interviews with nine large- scale environment-friendly vegetable producers regarding the supporting and hindering qualities of the Norwegian farming community. ... -
Celestial ecology : multiple ontologies of plant breeding
Tanis, Jonathan Everett (Master thesis, 2017)This study investigates the role that concepts of nature play in contemporary plant breeding practices, primarily in the Wageningen University plant breeding department but also among biodynamic breeders and breeders working ... -
Cultivating human beings : natural farming in South Korea
Perrelet, Charlotte (Master thesis, 2019)Although having achieved an unprecedented rise in food production, the ecological, social and health impacts of industrial agriculture have led numerous scholars and activists to question its desirability. Regarded as a ... -
Cultivating sustainable cannabis in the Danish Medicinal Cannabis Pilot Programme : a case study at OC CARE ApS
Avila Gomez, Nelson Eduardo (Master thesis, 2021)In my research I explore the Danish Medicinal Cannabis Pilot Programme (Pilot Programme). The study was done with the case of OC Care ApS’ (OC Care) Envision Concept, a legislation-compliant growth facility with a controlled ... -
Doing Agroecology : democratic practice and social learning in civic food organizations
Wollin, Johan (Master thesis, 2016-11-22)Localization of food networks has been heralded as a way of creating a more just and sustainable food system. This study explores the potential of civic food networks to serve as sites for “really existing” food democracy, ... -
Ecosystem restoration as a social movement : a case study of Camp Altiplano
Lewis, Peter Michael (Master thesis, 2022)Ecosystem restoration as a social movement is a promising approach to restoration that addresses flaws and gaps in the dominant institutional approach to restoration. By drawing on the framing approach to social movement ... -
Establishing an Agri-food living lab for sustainability transitions: Methodological insight from a case of strengthening the niche of organic vegetables in the Vestfold region in Norway
Hvitsand, Christine; Raanaas, Ruth Kjærsti; Gjøtterud, Sigrid; Nicolaysen, Anna Marie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)CONTEXT Agri-food systems face complex sustainability challenges, containing conflicting interests, goals, worldviews and fragmented knowledge and decision-making. There is a need for a better understanding of how to turn ... -
Feminist Agroecology: Perspectives from Female Farmers in Norway
Aas, Mari Jensen (Master thesis, 2022)Agroecology is a solution to transform food systems and meet the multifold crises of climate, biodiversity loss, food insecurity and social inequality. These crises impact people differently based on gender, ethnicity, ... -
Food gardening for change : a study of transformative learning in urban agriculture
Stafseng, Vebjørn Egner (Master thesis, 2019)In an increasingly urbanised world, we see an increase in the focus on cities and the role they play in sustainable food systems. In this study, urban food gardening projects are explored with the theoretical framework of ... -
Food systems policy and social-ecological resilience : the role of the European Green Deal for food systems transformation
Liegmann, Liselotte (Master thesis, 2021)This master thesis presents a theoretical discussion of the Farm to Fork strategy’s aim to transform food systems to become resilient. Over the last 20 years, the international scientific community has established that ... -
From feed to food : how a culinary focused transition enabled Copenhagen’s public meal system to convert to using 90% organic food at no extra cost
Crawford, Abel Ben Aleck (Master thesis, 2020)Our world faces a socio-ecological crisis, and our food system is a significant contributor to that crisis. We must seek to turn our food system into a contributor towards regenerating our earth systems. To do that we ... -
Future farmers and sustainability : a case study of newly established farmers in Southern Norway
Heggelund, Ellen Karoline (Master thesis, 2017)The industrialization of agricultural production around the world has resulted in an unsustainable direction of development and challenges related to farmers economic profitability, environmental degradation and reduced ... -
Growing roots in a community : an exploratory case study of urban agriculture and quality of life
Bogstad, Marie Henriksen (Master thesis, 2018)In a world where an increasing number of people live in cities, urban health is an essential part of comprehending sustainable development. Thus, moving towards a more sustainable world both socially, economically and ... -
High quality coffee value chains for smallholder livelihoods in the Yungas of La Paz Bolivia
Compigne, Isabeau (Master thesis, 2018)In Bolivia, the coffee sector is of great importance for many farmers in the country, especially in the Yungas region, where it involves more than 17,000 families. Unfortunately, in the past three years, coffee export has ... -
Norwegian short food supply chain development
Bulger, Molly McKelvey (Master thesis, 2017)Agro-food systems around the globe are consolidating and homogenizing. In response, they are also segmenting and diversifying. The emerging agro-food networks fit into what scholars describe as economic and rural development ... -
Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability transitions : niche innovations in agri-food systems
Hvitsand, Christine Marie (PhD thesis;2023:60, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Agri-food systems contribute to and face sustainability challenges across the entire value chain, from production, distribution, processing to retailing, consumption, and wastage. Organic farming, localized food systems, ... -
Reindeer husbandry in Southern Norway : status quo and how it is impacted by external factors
Jørgensen, Jarle Sandvær (Master thesis, 2022)Reindeer husbandry has been practiced in the artic regions for centuries and is one of few ways of utilizing natural resources in regions where plant productivity is marginal and weather conditions harsh. It is a trade ... -
The relevancy of stakeholder engagement in aiding the sustainable shift : an investigation through the eyes of farmers
Costello, Joanna Elizabeth (Master thesis, 2021)With growing awareness of the agricultural industry’s struggle to internalise and implement the sustainability shift, new methods for aiding the shift are being sought. As a growing number of findings can connect with ...