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

Writers: Natalia Mamonova, Susanne Wengle & Vitalii Dankevych This article examines the corn-driven boom of Ukraine’s agriculture, the damage wrought by Russia’s war, and the adaptation strategies by Ukrainian corporate agribusinesses. It thereby contributes to debates on the resilience of the global food system: we confirm extant concerns that the neoliberal agricultural model is highly…

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

Forfattere: Natalia Mamonova, Susanne Wengle og Vitalii Dankevych This article examines the corn-driven boom of Ukraine’s agriculture, the damage wrought by Russia’s war, and the adaptation strategies by Ukrainian corporate agribusinesses. It thereby contributes to debates on the resilience of the global food system: we confirm extant concerns that the neoliberal agricultural model is highly…

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A-16/23 Breaking wind: A comparison between U.S. and European approaches in offshore wind energy leadership in the North Atlantic region

Writers: Adam Gallaher, Marcello Graziano, Stephen Axon & Amanda Bertana The United States has only recently begun investing in commercial-scale offshore wind energy (OWE). Although the United States is slow to progress, it is uniquely positioned to build on the existing knowledge that coastal European countries have applied for their own energy transitions. In this study, we…

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

Writers: Finn Arler, Karl Sperling & Kristian Borch The internationally accepted goal of eliminating climate gas emissions implies substantial investments in renewable energy (RE) facilities. This will inevitably lead to major impacts on landscapes. Landscape concerns linked to RE facilities are already leading to controversies in many local communities. In this article, we focus on…

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

Writers: Maja Farstad, Pia P. Otte & Erika Palmer Under the umbrella of sustainable development, the bioeconomy presents one vision for overcoming complex sustainability challenges, such as climate change, by replacing non-renewable resources with renewable biological resources. But how will the efforts to implement this transition be received by the general public? Among Norwegians, the…

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A-25/23 Mjølketank med klimastempel – jordbruk, økologisk modernisering og «motvekst»

Forfatter: Eirik Magnus Fuglestad Klimapolitikken i norsk jordbruk handlar ofte om kva bonden kan gjera på garden sin for å redusera utslepp, og tiltaka som er føreslått, står i ein økologisk moderniseringstradisjon der teknologiar og innovative løysingar innanfor rammene av den eksisterande produksjonen er det som gjeld. Ut ifrå eigne erfaringar som odelsson argumenterer eg for…

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

Writers: Klaus Mittenzwei, Jordan Hristov, Ignacio Perez-Dominguez og Peter Witzke While countries have agreed in the Paris-agreement on common rules to report GHG emissions, the design of domestic climate policy regimes remains in the national domain. This may cause different carbon prices for climate gasses across countries, between a country’s emission sectors, and within the…

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

Writers: Juni Rosann E. Johanssen, Gunn-Turid Kvam, Brit Logstein and Mette Vaarst In recent years, the common dairy farming practice of early separation of dam and calf has received increased attention. Our aim was to explore how Norwegian dairy farmers with cow-calf contact (CCC) systems apply these systems in practice, and how they experience and…

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

Writers: Klaus Mittenzwei, Geir Wæhler Gustavsen, Kristine Grimsrud, Henrik Lindhjem og Hilde Bjørkhaug Climate policies may have adverse geographically unequal socio-economic impacts that, if left unaddressed, may hamper their implementation. This paper examines factors explaining rural-urban perceptions of the effects of climate policy on agriculture and rural areas. The paper adds to current knowledge by jointly analysing…

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

Writer: Renate Marie Butli Hårstad The lack of research in farm animal welfare governance is noticeable given how political science traditionally describes the agricultural field as politicized, i.e., subject to private and public regulations and governance. This paper shows how this issue is making its way into social and political science by using a scoping…

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

Writers: Brit Logstein and Hilde Bjørkhaug This article presents research carried out in Norway, among the population of livestock farmers. It analyses farmers’ understanding of animal welfare, and how their different concerns about animal welfare varies across farmers’ considerations about the role of the agricultural sector in Norwegian society and animal welfare regulations, material conditions at the farm level, farmers’…

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A-7/23 Ulikhet i høyere utdanning: Betydningen av klassebakgrunn, kjønn og bosted

Writer: Alexander Zahl-Thanem The link between class origin and educational attainment have been extensively studied in numerous countries. Additionally, a growing body of research shows that place is essential for understanding educational inequalities. Rural youth have been identified as a group commonly underrepresented in higher education in several countries. However, evidence on how class origin…

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

Writers: Sarah Harper (University of Victoria and Wildlife Conservation Society) and Danika Kleiber (WorldFish and James Cook University) with contributions from Afrina Choudhury (WorldFish and Wageningen University), Alice Joan Ferrer (University of the Philippines Visayas), Amelia Duffy-Tumasz (Temple University), Ashley Fent (Vassar College), Ayodele Oloko (University of Bremen), Carmen Pedroza (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México),…

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

Forfatter: Eirik M. Fuglestad   Denne artikkelen er ein refleksjon over den økonomiske situasjonen i norsk jordbruk slik den har utvikla seg sidan 1970-talet. Med dei klassiske teoriane om grunnrente som analytisk utgangspunkt går artikkelen gjennom den strukturelle utviklinga av jordbruket i denne perioden. Det peikast på to viktige utviklingstrekk som kan ha medverka til…

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