INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric)

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 2 Institutional partnerships  Through institutional partnerships Noragric maintains and develops the relevancy of its research and education in addressing local and global environment and development issues with a focus on low and medium income countries.  Activities include joint research, joint education activities, staff and student exchange and capacity building.  Some of Noragric’s institutional partnerships are presented in the following slides.

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 3 Ethiopia: Hawassa University and Mekelle University Research activities with Hawassa University started in The current programme with both Hawassa and Mekelle started in 1999 and has been implemented in two 5-year phases. The third five-year phase started in The cooperation encompasses:  Crop science  Environmental rehabilitation and ecology  Soil and water sciences including irrigation  Veterinary sciences  Animal science  Limnology and fisheries  Biodiversity and genetic resources  Social sciences  Food safety

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 4 Malawi: University of Malawi, Bunda College Joint activities related to the ‘Support to Bunda College Capacity Building Programme’ phase III ( ):  Exchange of staff and students  Advice and support to institutional development including library development at Bunda College  Joint monitoring and evaluation of the programme Collaboration under the ‘Malawi Agricultural Research and Development Fund ( ):  Joint development and implementation of collaborative research and outreach projects  Participatory monitoring and evaluation of the programme  Joint publication and dissemination of knowledge

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 5 Sudan: University of Juba The project is called ‘Post-war livelihood and environment studies’. It is part of NUCOOP, a programme under NUFU-administration that aims to provide assistance to southern Sudanese universities when they according to the The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005) move from Khartoum to their home bases in the south. We are in the first phase: 2008 – Activities under this project includes:  PhD studies: –War impact on the environment in the southern Sudan –Wildlife ecology and conflicts between elephants and local farming communities  MSc.: Stipends for junior staff for MSc-studies in neighbouring countries.  ‘Minisabbaticals’: Senior staff on 3-months stay at UMB.  Joint research: Conflicts and reintegration of returnees, plant genetic resources, livestock and animal nutrition.  Technical support: books, equipment and laboratory development.

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 6 Tanzania: Sokoine University of Agriculture  1973: Cooperation started with a BSc programme in forestry  1996: Broad cooperation agreement at university level  : Food Security and Household Income for Small-holder Farmers in Tanzania (TARPII-SUA)  : Programme for Agricultural and Natural Resources Transformation for Improved Livelihoods (PANTIL) PANTIL: 22 researchers from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NVH) and the Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (Bioforsk) participate in 19 applied research projects

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 7 Tanzania: University of Dar es Salaam The Institute of Marine Sciences is the focal point of the cooperation at the University of Dar es Salaam. Objectives:  Joint research programmes on marine and coastal natural resource management  Competence building within both institutions  Enhance cooperation with other institutions in East Africa  To address:  rights and development aspirations of local coastal communities  environmental issues including biodiversity conservation  social issues including gender equality  Disseminate knowledge from cooperative efforts  A new programme addressing climate change is in the pipeline

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 8 Uganda: Makerere University The current activity is focused on Makerere University’s role as one of the two hosts for the third semester of Noragric’s MSc programme in International Environmental Studies. Under this activity Makerere University:  takes part in curriculum development  teaches a 15-credit course  hosts UMB’s students at Makerere University’s campus and provides logistical support  provides supervision for students conducting fieldwork in Uganda  provides teaching and reading facilities for students and visiting Noragric staff

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 9 Conservation Farming Unit (CFU) of Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) Conservation agriculture is a set of crop husbandry practices characterised by retention of crop residues, minimum tillage, land preparation in the dry season, early and continuous weeding, crop rotation, intercropping, and agroforestry. The Conservation Agriculture Project (CAP) provides training on conservation agriculture to 120,000 farmers. Noragric’s role in CAP is:  to measure project impacts on target beneficiaries  to assist in measuring project outputs  to assess effects of institutional networking and evaluation  to provide technical advice on monitoring and evaluation  to build local capacity on monitoring and evaluation.

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 10 Nepal: Tribhuvan University The current activity is focused on Tribhuvan University’s role as one of the two hosts for the third semester of Noragric’s MSc programme in International Environmental Studies. Under this activity Tribhuvan University:  takes part in curriculum development  teaches a 15-credit course  hosts UMB’s students at Tribhuvan University’s campus and provides logistical support  provides supervision for students conducting fieldwork in Nepal  provides teaching and reading facilities for students and visiting Noragric staff

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 11 Pakistan: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Collaboration with CIIT began in 2006 at the campus in Abbottabad, with the Departments of Environmental Sciences and Development Studies. Activities include curriculum development, joint advising, joint research, and staff and student exchange. Topics include resource management and agriculture, sustainable water and sanitation, post-earthquake recovery, and poverty alleviation. Recently (2008) an international MSc programme was developed by UMB, CIIT and Tribhuvan University (Nepal) in Sustainable Water, Sanitation, Health and Development. Additional programmes with CIIT are under development to support research and education activities in Afghanistan.

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 12 South-Eastern Europe: Cooperation with universities in Western Balkan  Albania: Agricultural University of Tirana  Bosnia and Herzegovina: University of Banja Luka, University of Mostar, University ‘Dz.B.’ of Mostar and University of Sarajevo  Croatia: J.J.S. University of Osijek  Kosovo: University of Pristina  Macedonia: University of S.C. & M. of Skopje  Montenegro: University of Montenegro  Serbia: University of Belgrade and University of Novi Sad

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES Institutional collaboration at Noragric 13 South-Eastern Europe: Cooperation with universities in Western Balkan Cooperating institutions in Norway:  Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences Department of Economics and Resource Management Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric  Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute  Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research