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Business development and bioeconomy

Good business development in rural areas requires the development and use of research-based knowledge. We research business development in district industries such as agriculture and forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, travel and tourism, use of outfield and the coastal zone.

In our research, we examine, among other things, the importance of the interaction between resource base, market, regulations and socio-cultural mechanisms. We research how new technology is used and how this affects business practice, and examine the living conditions and quality of life of business people and the local population.

Research areas within Business development and bioeconomy
Research managers
Gunn-Turid Kvam

Gunn-Turid Kvam Research Manager/Senior Researcher +47 412 11 814

Latest about Business development and bioeconomy

Tresking av havre
Climate measures

One in three farmers wants climate advice

Competence

Agriculture is becoming increasingly complex: Improved advice can be part of the solution

Turistskatt?
Bioeconomy

Ground rent: Exporting a good principle?

En rakett sitter fast i en ukrainsk hveteåker
Food and food production

Natalia Mamonova – senior researcher at RURALIS – has given an interview to the Ukrainian journal “Commons” about her project on “Food security, food sovereignty and collective action during the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian and global perspectives”.

Tourism and travel business

Greenland and its growing tourism – how can it be sustainable?

Bønder protesterer i Tyskland
Farmers

Neoliberal Limits – Farmer Protests, Elections and the Far Right

Aquaculture

The Ocean Decade – and the important questions

Nidelven, Trondheim
Gender, gender equality and integration

We have now set the timetable for the BluePlaces project

Bioeconomy

Manure gases and the risk for accidents in Norwegian agriculture

Business Development

GRASS CEILING – Gender equality in rural and agricultural innovation systems

International Women's Day on 8th March 2024
Competence

International Women’s Day on 8th March 2024

Uten bønder blir butikkene tomme for varer
Farmers

Blame the System, Not the Farmers

Climate

Evaluering av pilotperiode for tilskudd til klimarådgiving

Climate and Resource Management

RESTORE: Restoration of ecosystem functioning and biodiversity in semi-natural habitats under high pressure

Climate

LocalArctic: Contextualizing sustainable tourism through a local Arctic project funding program for sustainable event planning in Greenland

Agriculture and business development

Opptrapping i jordbruket – Ei ny retning for å betre svara opp dei landbrukspolitiske måla

Animal welfare

Let’s talk about animal welfare

Agriculture and business development

Funding Future Welfare: Bioeconomy as the «New Oil» and the Sharing of Benefits from Natural Resources (BioShare)

Area

LAMASUS – Land Management for Sustainability

Animal welfare

R-2/23 Holdninger til økt samvær mellom ku og kalv blant norske forbrukere og meieri-og dagligvareaktører

Agriculture and business development

Recruitment of workers to farm relief service

Farming

KARBONMAT: Designing sustainable business model (SBM) concepts for carbon sequestration in soils to transform the Norwegian food system

Area

Grassland conservation across European landscapes protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services with ecological networks

Bioeconomy

Climate Smart Management for Resilient European Cropping Systems

Aquaculture

SkillsRoad: analyzing mismatches between skills and regional economic development plans

Business development and bioeconomy

A-17/23 Queen of the fields in wartime: what can Ukrainian corn tell us about the resilience of the global food system?

Agriculture

A-17/23 Queen of the fields in wartime: what can Ukrainian corn tell us about the resilience of the global food system?

Business development and bioeconomy

A-15/23 Landscape Democracy and the Implementation of Renewable Energy Facilities

Bioeconomy

A-13/23 Socio-cultural conditions for social acceptance of bioeconomy transitions: the case of Norway

Business development and bioeconomy

N-6/23 Holdninger til nye fôringredienser i jordbruk og norsk oppdrettsnæring, og muligheter for samarbeid på tvers av jordbruk og oppdrett. En kartlegging

Business development and bioeconomy

A-12/23 Mjølketank med klimastempel – jordbruk, økologisk modernisering og «motvekst»

Bioeconomy

Agrisocial: Towards a socially sustainable green transition for agriculture and rural communities

Bioeconomy

R 5/23 Evaluering av en pilotstudie for lokal folkefinansiering av klimatiltak i norsk landbruk

Bioeconomy

A-12/23 Effects for global agriculture of country-specific climate policy regimes with a focus on methane

Animal welfare

A-11/23 Interrelationships between cows, calves, and humans in cow-calf contact systems—An interview study among Norwegian dairy farmers

Animal welfare

Welfarm: Improving animal welfare regulatory compliance in dairy and pig farming

Business development and bioeconomy

A-10/23 Perceived effects of climate policy on rural areas and agriculture: A rural-urban divide

Animal welfare

A-9/23 The politics of animal welfare: A scoping review of farm animal welfare governance

Animal welfare

A-8/23 Good Animal Welfare in Norwegian Farmers’ context. Can both industrial and natural conventions be achieved in the social license to farm?

Farmers

Cattle and machinery are often involved when accidents occur in agriculture

Bioeconomy

Climate Smart Management for Resilient European Cropping Systems

Aquaculture

A-6/23 Towards gender inclusivity and equality in small-scale fisheries

Småbrukere i Ukraina flytter tankser
Farmers

The small-scale farmers in Ukraine hold the key to the future of food supply

Bioeconomy

A-5/23 Kvifor er det ikkje grunnrente i norsk jordbruk? om korleis verdiane frå jorda forsvann til kapitalen.

Bioeconomy

A-5/23 Kvifor er det ikkje grunnrente i norsk jordbruk? om korleis verdiane frå jorda forsvann til kapitalen.

Business development and bioeconomy

R-1/23 Helse, miljø og sikkerhet i landbruket. Resultater fra en spørreundersøkelse blant norske bønder i 2022

Business development and bioeconomy

R-1/23 Helse, miljø og sikkerhet i landbruket. Resultater fra en spørreundersøkelse blant norske bønder i 2022

Småbrukere i Ukraina flytter tankser
Bioeconomy

Food security, food sovereignty and collective action during the war in Ukraine – Ukrainian and global perspectives

Kvinnebonde med høner
Agriculture and business development

To succeed in restructuring in the districts, what does gender have to say?

Climate

One crop two diets – locally sourced feed for cow and chicken from biorefined forage

Bioeconomy

A-3/23 Ground rent from the Norwegian outfields and social sustainability in centre-periphery relations

Farming

A-1/23 Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking

Bioeconomy

A-20/22 Crowdfunding of GHG mitigation measures in agriculture: A feasible contribution to the climate challenges? Sociocultural constraints and enablers in Norway

Bioeconomy

A-19/22 Potential demand for synthetic meat

Animal welfare

A-18/22 Inducing Fear using Acoustic Stimuli – A Behavioural Experiment on Moose (Alces alces) in Sweden

Agriculture and business development

New project researches climate-neutral agriculture in the EU

Business development and bioeconomy

N-1/23 Towards a cellular food future: Final recommendations from the Protein 2.0 project to Norwegian policy makers and food system actors

Farmer provides concentrate for cows
Aquaculture

Comment: Access to feed is also food security

Farming

A-17/22 Feminist and gender research in Norwegian farming and forestry (landbruk) contexts: Past and future directions

Climate

R-13/22 Tilrettelegging for reduserte klimagassutslipp på norske gårder

Climate management and measures

N-7/22 Demokratiske planleggingsprosesser for fornybare energisystemer i Norge – en oversikt over identifiserte samfunnstiltak

Area

R-11/22 Helse, miljø og sikkerhet i reindrift. Funn fra kartlegging blant reindriftsutøvere

Climate management and measures

A-16/22 Promoting climate change mitigation in agriculture: do we need to account for family farm life-cycle?

Climate management and measures

A-15/22 Climate considerations aside: What really matters for farmers in their implementation of climate mitigation measures

Energy

R-12/22 Såret i Bygda – En kvalitativ studie av opplevelsen av demokratiske prosesser ved utbygging av vindkraft

Aquaculture

A-14/22 Introduction to fishy feminisms: feminist analysis of fishery places

Aquaculture

N-6/22 Fôr- og husdyrbaserte verdikjeder i norsk matproduksjon – nåsituasjon og begreper

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Development research

Better drying techniques can reduce food waste

Agriculture and business development

A-13/22 Critical support for different stages of innovation in agriculture: What, when, how?

Aquaculture

Socio-economic Empowerment of coastal communities as users of the sea to ensure sustainable coastal development (EmpowerUs)

Agriculture and business development

R-10/22 Trender i norsk landbruk 2022. En nasjonal spørreundersøkelse blant bønder i Norge

Kystsamfunn utenfor Ålesund
Aquaculture

Building Resilient Blue Places? The importance of Equity and Blue Space in Assembling a Blue Economy in the context of Climate Change (BLUEPLACES)

Food and food production

A-12/22 Antimicrobial resistance in dairy slurry tanks: A critical point for measurement and control

Business development and bioeconomy

Animal collisions – New approach to increase the safety on roads

Kyr på beite
Farmers

DairyMix: Multi-criteria assessment, decision support and management tools for sustainable circular mixed farming systems for dairy production

Agriculture and business development

A-11/22 Social integration mechanisms to strengthen absorptive capacity in agricultural advisory service organisations

Bioeconomy

N-4/22 Forslag til tiltak for mer bruk av lauvtre i bygg og mer gjenbruk av tre (forstudie)

Agriculture and business development

N-3/22 Hvordan øke selvforsyningsgraden i norsk jordbruk?

Climate management and measures

R-7/22 Funn fra en kvalitativ studie om bønders gjennomføring av klimatiltak

Business development and bioeconomy

Knowledge and learning from AgriLink to actors in the Norwegian AKIS (Agriculture Knowledge and Innovation System)

Climate and Resource Management

N-2/22 Refleksjoner om ressurser «in the making» i naturbasert turisme

Agriculture and business development

R-6/22 Trender i norsk landbruk 2022. Regional rapport for Møre og Romsdal

Business development and bioeconomy

R-5/22 Tiltak for å fremme bruk av tre og lokale verdikjeder ved kommunale anskaffelser

Agriculture and business development

The Grain, the War and our Food Security

Agriculture and business development

Artificial meat as a mirror of society

Bioeconomy

R-4/22 Covid-19: Erfaringer og konsekvenser for små naturbaserte reiselivsbedrifter

Aquaculture

R-2/22 Kunnskapsstatus om bærekraftig norsk fôrproduksjon til havbruk og husdyr i jordbruket

Animal welfare

ROAM FREE: RObust Animals in sustainable Mixed FREE-range systems

Kvinnelig fisker sjekker krabbeteiner
Aquaculture

Ruralis research on gender and equity in EU project

Agrirobot Thorvald
Agriculture and business development

Now you can test whether new technology is ready to be used

SusFeed full logo
Agriculture and business development

Kick-off for the development of new solutions in the feeding system

Business development and bioeconomy

R-1/22 Kartlegging av muligheter for økologisk landbruk i Møre og Romsdal

Business development and bioeconomy

N-1/22 Nature-based tourism and community resilience: Framework and application with a firm perspective

Animal welfare

CalfComfort: Nurturing positive welfare in calves

Development research

R-9/21 Smart teknologi for et bærekraftig landbruk

Bioeconomy

R-3/21 Markedsavklaring av test- og kompetansesenter for emballasje

Competence

N-3/21 En begynnende kartlegging av kunnskaps- og kompetansesystemet for skogbruk i Trøndelag i 2018

Animal welfare

R-7/21 Kostnader ved økt arealkrav for å forbedre dyrevelferd hos gris

Business development and bioeconomy

Pilot project on timber products in procurement

Aquaculture

R-6/21 Oversikt over norsk og global akvakultur og akvafôr

Tahko
Business development and bioeconomy

Nordic conference for rural research: Finland, Spring 2022

Bioeconomy

Increase in local contributions in value chains for use and reuse of wood in buildings and interiors – pre-project

Farmers

A-35/21 Combined solar and membrane drying technologies for sustainable fruit preservation in low-income countries –prototype development, modelling, and testing

Business development and bioeconomy

COOLCROWD 2.0: Testing of a local crowdfunding concept for financing climate mitigation measures in Norwegian agriculture

Business development and bioeconomy

European region of gastronomy 2022 – pilot study

Development research

A-32/21 Using Aggregated Farm Location Information to Predict Regional Structural Change of Farm Specialisation, Size and Exit/Entry in Norway Agriculture

Animal welfare

More space for pigs

Grisunger i binge
Agriculture and business development

What do we do with resistant bacteria in agriculture?

Aquaculture

Sisters in the Arctic Blue – Advancing a Gender Perspective in Arctic Marine and Coastal Social Science Research

Agriculture and business development

N-2/21 Samarbeid om vekstskifte i jordbruket

Farmers

Drug and addiction problems in agriculture, prevention, and treatment

Agriculture and business development

Organic farming Møre og Romsdal county

Aquaculture

Promoting collaboration for sustainable and circular use of bioresources across agriculture, forestry, and aquaculture (CIRCLE)

Climate and Resource Management

Testing of technical solutions to prevent collisions with wild animals along the railway

Bioeconomy

R-5/21 Interaksjons- og læringsprosesser i skogrelaterte innovasjonsprosjekter: En casestudie av et multiaktørprosjekt i Arena Skog

Farmer in wheat field
Farmers

Research will help farmers with substance abuse problems

Agriculture and business development

R-4/21 Evaluering av Grønn Forskning i Midt-Norge

Agriculture and business development

To develop agricultural advice with a long-term perspective

Business development and bioeconomy

SolarFood: Reducing post-harvest losses through improved solar drying

Farming

A-25/21 Agriculture in Transition: New Strategies for the Promotion of Occupational Health and Safety

Agriculture and business development

A-24/21 Balanced readiness level assessment (BRLa): A tool for exploring new and emerging technologies

Agriculture and business development

A-23/21 Farmers’ interest in crowdfunding to finance climate change mitigation practices

Bioeconomy

A-22/21 Tilbake til Grunnrentelandet – ei idehistorisk utgreiing av grunnrenteskatt som prinsipp

Bioeconomy

A-19/21 A full package of gains? Lay perspectives on a bioeconomic transition in Norway

Aquaculture

A-18/21 Gender and Blue Justice in Small-Scale Fisheries Governance

Bioeconomy

SYNAGRI: Developing synergies between the bioeconomy and regional food systems for a sustainable future

Aquaculture

SUSFEED – Sustainable feed production from Norwegian bio-resources for livestock and aquaculture

Climate management and measures

A-16/21 Crowdfunding for climate change: Exploring the use of climate frames by environmental entrepreneurs

Property

A-15/21 Nationalism and private property

Agriculture and business development

A-14/21 Compressed growth: The transforming power of the round bale technology

Koronaen gjør kortreist turisme i natur mer aktuelt enn noen gang.
Tourism and travel business

Corona can make nature-based tourism flourish

Business development and bioeconomy

Green Care Nordland County

Food
Development research

COVID-19 intensifies hunger among refugees

Farmers

“The good farmer” is motivated by more than just money

Area

N-1/21 Økonomiske virkemidler i norsk jordbruk for å oppnå lavere utslipp av klimagasser, redusert kjøttforbruk, stabil matproduksjon og jordbruk over hele landet

Aquaculture

A-13/21 Den nye oljen

Food
Business development and bioeconomy

Sustainable Food Systems for poverty and hunger alleviation in Low Income Countries

Agriculture and business development

A-12/21 Disentangling critical success factors and principles of on-farm agricultural demonstration events