A-7/22 Living Labs as an Approach to Strengthen Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems
Writers: Jorieke Potters, Kevin Collins, Herman Schoorlemmer, Egil Petter Stræte, Emils Kilis, Andy Lane og Heloise Leloup Climate and ecosystem changes, economic and policy imperatives, food system pressures, and multiple societal expectations pose complex challenges for sustainable farming. A key problem is determining an effective and efficient approach to enable innovation in complex, multi-stakeholder settings.…
Read MoreA-6/22 Managing growth in medium-sized organic businesses: Implications for local orientation and resilience building
Writers: Rebecka Milestad, Susanne von Münchhausen, Gunn-Turid Kvam, Markus Schermer This article explores how locally oriented organic businesses adapt to handle crises during a growth process to build resilience, how these businesses maintain the local orientation when growing and what the implications are for the relationship between territoriality and organic production. We explored four cases…
Read MoreA-5/22 The combined effect of success factors in crowdfunding of Cleantech projects
Writers: Pia Piroschka Otte and Natalia Maehle Cleantech projects can significantly contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions globally. However, they often lack investments from the conventional finance sector. Crowdfunding represents an alternative for financing cleantech projects. By using a Qualitative Comparative Analysis, this paper explores the combinational effect of the six success factors…
Read MoreA-4/22 Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture
Writers: Richard Helliwell, Carol Morris and Stephen Jones The desire to govern antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animal agriculture has gained renewed prominence in the UK and international policy and practice in response to growing concern about the impact of AMR infections on human and animal health. This article adopts a more-than-human approach inspired by assemblage…
Read MoreA-3/22 The role of farmers’ microAKIS at differernt stages of uptake of digital technology
Writers: Gunn-Turid Kvam, Renate M.B. Hårstad og Egil Petter Stræte Purpose To explore the role of farmers’ Micro Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (microAKIS) for different adopter categories and stages of uptake of digital technologies, by studying single farmers’ assemblages and sources of knowledge. Methodology The Triggering Change Model (TCM) was used to explore the…
Read MoreA-2/22 Commentary
Writers: Camilla Sandström & Katrina Rønningen How to turn the different “ways of seeing” and “ways of knowing” into “ways of making” legitimate regulations, processes, and legal frameworks for the potential sharing of benefits and burdens of natural resources and places? Political science, geography, and anthropology are all concerned with power and its structuring effects; anthropology,…
Read MoreA-1/22 Recognizing Women’s Wellbeing and Contribution to Social Resilience in Fisheries
Writers: Lucy Szaboova, Madeleine Gustavsson & Rachel Turner Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, whichglobally face unprecedented social and environmental change. Whilewomen’s direct and indirect contribution to fishing economies isincreasingly recognized, their contribution to the social resilience offisheries remains under-examined. Using interview and focus groupdata, we investigate women’s role in supporting the social resilienceof UK fishing communities…
Read MoreA-36/21 What makes people act climate-friendly? A decision-making path model for designing effective climate change policies
Climate change presents the largest global challenge in human history. In order to achieve ambitious climate goals, we need a rapid worldwide decarbonization of all sectors enabled by a socio-technical transformation. Previous research argues that the transition is hindered due to researchers’ disciplinary lock-in that only addresses one piece of the complex phenomenon. This article…
Read MoreA-35/21 Combined solar and membrane drying technologies for sustainable fruit preservation in low-income countries –prototype development, modelling, and testing
This investigation consisted of developing and evaluating solar dryers together with semi-permeable membrane pouches for drying juicy fruits in low-income tropical countries. Two design iterations were carried out including prototype modelling and testing. The latest developed solar dryers were a passive and an active solar dryer. Modelling was initially carried out mathematically using an equation…
Read MoreA-34/21 Boundaryless boundary-objects: Digital fencing of the CyborGoat in rural Norway
This article describes a case study of virtual herding and digital fencing technology implementation for goats in Norway. With the abolishing of physical fences, the goats can roam free in a physical sense, but in the digital realm, they are controlled by a virtual fence. The virtual fence, or digital boundary, is set by the…
Read MoreA-33/21 The domestication triangle: How humans, animals and technology shape each other – The case of automated milking systems
This article investigates the domestication of milking robots, most often labelled automatic milking systems (AMS) into dairy farms in Norway. It shows that producers of AMS tend to represent the integration of the technology as a process where their expert systems aid and guide the farmer so that she learns how to be an ‘AMS farmer’. However,…
Read MoreA-32/21 Using Aggregated Farm Location Information to Predict Regional Structural Change of Farm Specialisation, Size and Exit/Entry in Norway Agriculture
In this paper, we extend the analysis of farm structural change with respect to farm specialisation, size and exit in Norway by, first, explicitly incorporating the location information of farms generating a number of neighbouring farms within a certain range and, second, by predicting farm numbers in addition to farm group shares, which allows for…
Read MoreA-31/21 Local Integration as Durable Solution? Negotiating Socioeconomic Spaces between refugees and Host Communities in Rural Northern Uganda
With a growing number of displaced people, there is a need for robust approaches to coping with displacement. Uganda has a progressive refugee policy that promotes freedom of movement and the socioeconomic rights of the refugees. Specifically, refugees are often allocated land to settle and cultivate rural settlements, and the integrated social service provision facilitates…
Read MoreA-30/21 Should we use email for farm surveys? A comparative study of email and postal survey response rate and non-response bias
Many agricultural researchers are now turning away from the traditional postal surveys to email surveys of farmers – an option that is increasingly viable as digitalisation continues to permeate rural areas. However, email surveys often result in considerably lower response rates. This raises questions about the potential of email surveys to experience non-response bias, where…
Read MoreA-29/21 Social transparency in rural areas in Norway: Promoting or restraining the desire to stay?
“Everyone knows everyone” is a recurring characteristic in descriptions of rural communities, one that has been interpreted as both a benefit and a drawback in research on such localities. In response to that discrepancy, this paper investigates the overall statistical effect of social transparency on residents’ desire to continue living in their rural communities. As…
Read MoreA-28/21 Rurality: from the margins back to the focus of interest
I Pospěch P., E.M. Fuglestad, E. Figueiredo and (red.) Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticisty. Forlag: Routledge
Read MoreA-27/21 Rural Authenticity between commodification and populism
I Pospěch P., E.M. Fuglestad, E. Figueiredo and (red.) Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticisty. Forlag: Routledge
Read MoreA-26/21 A river runs through the landscape: Everyday use in an ever changing environment
The meaning of riverine landscapes to society has evolved to serve our ever-changing needs, from harvesting and transporting resources to arenas for outdoor recreation and contemplation. From the 18th century, rivers have been important resources for industry and hydroelectric power. The objective of this study is to explore and describe the rhythms of everyday use of a river…
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