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Animal collisions are a significant and growing problem
Collisions with animals are a significant and growing problem globally, with hundreds of millions of animals being hit annually. In Norway, this problem is also very widespread, with up to 20,000 animals registered as being hit on Norwegian roads and railway lines every single year. It is important to point out that only a few…
Read MoreGeography helps determine which education you take
By Alexander Zahl-Thanem The further away from the big cities you grow up, the lower the probability of completing education at university and college level. This is clear from a research article I wrote in connection with my own doctoral thesis, which was recently published in the European Sociological Review journal. The aim of the…
Read MoreGround rent: Exporting a good principle?
This text expresses the writer’s personal views. We live in a time with strong pressures on both nature and democracy. When looking for strategies to meet these, it is possible to see these issues interlinked. A proposal including the principle of the ancient Norwegian general right of access for recreational purposes in the forests, mountains,…
Read MoreComment: Access to feed is also food security
The use of new feed ingredients can solve this challenge, but at the same time the feed competition with livestock in agriculture might increase. Nevertheless, more use of Norwegian-based feed ingredients can strengthen food security. A report from Nofima shows that in 2020, 8 per cent of the volume of feed used for salmon feed…
Read MoreArtificial meat as a mirror of society
Such products, it is said, will be able to provide future consumers with affordable and satisfactory alternatives to ‘conventional’ meat and alleviate concerns about the meat’s consequences for animal welfare or climate change. In a decade, the production price of an artificial burger has dropped from €250,000 to around 10. A pilot plant and test…
Read MoreTo develop agricultural advice with a long-term perspective
Many farmers are pondering what to do in the future – new investment, maintenance or downsizing? From Ruralis’s Trend survey in 2020, we know that 27 per cent of farmers have invested more than a million kroner in buildings, machinery or other infrastructure over the past five years. There is a lot of uncertainty, even if the investment turns out to be financially justifiable. A farmer in one of our…
Read MoreScaring elks to avoid train accidents
It takes about a kilometer for a train at full speed to stop. To date we have not been able to solve the dangers of elks or other types of deer entering the railway track. Animal collisions pose major challenges for society, animal welfare, animal owners, railway companies, and not least for train drivers. In…
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