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’…
Read MoreA-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…
Read MoreA-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),…
Read MoreA-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…
Read MoreA-4/23 Overweight children in rural Norway – public health nurses’ possibilities and limitations within national guidelines
Forfattere: Reidun Heggem, Gudveig Gjøsund, Alexander Zahl-Thanem og Anne Margrethe Brigham
Read MoreA-3/23 Ground rent from the Norwegian outfields and social sustainability in centre-periphery relations
Writer: Eirik M. Fuglestad Den norske utmarkshistoria har døme på korleis grunnrente har vore fordelte både som rettar til bruk, og som pengeverdiar. Det mest kjende døme er forvaltninga av fossekrafta slik den kom i stand fram mot 1917. Men også bureisinga som toppa seg på 1930-talet, Fjellova av 1920 og Jordlova av 1928 kan…
Read MoreA-2/23 Rural youth: Quality of life, civil participation, and outlooks for a rural future
I Johansen Pia Heike, Anne Tietjen, Evald Bundgård Iversen, Henrik Lauridsen Lolle and Jens Kaae Fisker (red.): Rural quality of life
Read MoreA-1/23 Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking
Forfattere: Lee-Ann Sutherland, Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Boelie Elzen, Alexandros Koutsouris, Catherine Laurent, Egil Petter Stræte og Pierre Labarthe The establishment of effective national agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS) became a European policy imperative in the 2010s, lodged in a political ideology which emphasised the importance of innovation to economic growth. We argue that the recent deployment…
Read MoreA-20/22 Crowdfunding of GHG mitigation measures in agriculture: A feasible contribution to the climate challenges? Sociocultural constraints and enablers in Norway
Writers: Maja Farstad og Renate Marie Butli Hårstad Agriculture is one sector under pressure when it comes to mitigation of climate change. To overcome the economic barriers preventing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures from being implemented, this paper explores whether crowdfunding could be a feasible solution to this problem. The paper theoretically and empirically explores…
Read MoreA-19/22 Potential demand for synthetic meat
Writers: Geir Wæhler Gustavsen and Klaus Mittenzwei The demand for meat products is rising globally. A potential substitute for meat is synthetic meat, meat produce d in the laboratory. Synthetic meat is not in the market yet due to high production costs and regulatory issues, but it will probably be available during the next decade.…
Read MoreA-18/22 Inducing Fear using Acoustic Stimuli – A Behavioural Experiment on Moose (Alces alces) in Sweden
Writers: Manisha Bhardwaj, Denice Lodnert, Mattias Olsson, Aina Winsvold, Svein Morten Eilertsen, Petter Kjellander, Andreas Seiler Prey species may display anti-predatory behavior, i.e., flight, increased vigilance, and decreased feeding, in response to the true presence of a predator or to the implied presence of a predator through, e.g., acoustic cues. In this study, we investigated the anti-predatory reactions of moose (Alces…
Read MoreA-17/22 Feminist and gender research in Norwegian farming and forestry (landbruk) contexts: Past and future directions
Writers: Madeleine Gustavsson and Maja Farstad Much feminist rural geography to date has centred on understanding gender issues in rural space. Norwegian scholars have been leading the way in identifying new themes and approaches to examining the positions of women and men on farms and in farming communities, which has contributed to important contextual knowledge…
Read MoreA-16/22 Promoting climate change mitigation in agriculture: do we need to account for family farm life-cycle?
Writers: Rob Burton and Pia P. Otte Family farms go through cyclical stages of development and contraction as a result of the overlapping of business goals and generational changes. This ‘farm family life-cycle’ results in periods within which farm families are highly innovative and farmers willing to invest, and other periods where innovativeness and investment…
Read MoreA-21/22 Meat, and Fish from the petri dish -Which attributes would make cultured proteins (un)attractive and for whom? Results from a Nordic survey.
A-15/22 Climate considerations aside: What really matters for farmers in their implementation of climate mitigation measures
Writers: Maja Farstad, Anders Mahlum Melås and Laurens Klerkx The implementation of climate mitigation measures at the farm level is highly dependent on farmers’ willingness to make adjustments to their farms. While many studies have identified various barriers to climate mitigation in agriculture – among them farmers’ weak interest in climate – there has been…
Read MoreA-14/22 Introduction to fishy feminisms: feminist analysis of fishery places
Writers: Christine Knott and Madeleine Gustavsson Both fisheries and feminism have been the subject of much research spanning academic disciplines and topics for many years. The papers in this themed issue are considered ‘fishy’ in the sense that they are both about fisheries and fish in diverse places, but also because they use a feminist…
Read MoreA-13/22 Critical support for different stages of innovation in agriculture: What, when, how?
Writers: Egil Petter Stræte, Jostein Vik, Eirik Magnus Fuglestad, Mads Dahl Gjefsen, Anders M.Melås, Roger A.Søraa The agricultural sector is undergoing several transitions through “smart-farming” technologies. To make this innovation responsible, it is critical to support technological innovation at different stages of innovation with customized strategies for the individual technology. Agricultural Systems, Volume 203, December…
Read MoreA-12/22 Antimicrobial resistance in dairy slurry tanks: A critical point for measurement and control
Writers: Michelle Baker, Alexander D. Williams, Steven P.T. Hooton, Richard Helliwell, Elizabeth King,Thomas Dodsworth, Rosa María Baena-Nogueras, Andrew Warry, Catherine A. Ortori, Henry Todman, Charlotte J. Gray-Hammerton, Alexander C.W. Pritchard, Ethan Iles, Ryan Cook, Richard D. Emes, Michael A. Jones, Theodore Kypraios, Helen West, David A. Barrett, Stephen J. Ramsden, Rachel L. Gomes, Chris Hudson, Andrew…
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