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David versus Goliath? the impact of corporate expansion in the alcohol retail industry on incumbent small-scale retailers
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A blessing in disguise: advisers’ experiences with promoting climate change mitigation among Norwegian farmers
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Decomposing household income differences between farmers and non-farmers: Empirical evidence from Norway
Get PDFIncome comparisons between farm and non-farm households play a crucial role in many aspects of farm policy. Using household income data from tax returns of all Norwegian taxpayers in the period 2006–2015 we study these income differences. We find that the unconditional mean income is higher for farm households, but with important differences depending on the comparison group considered. We also find that the income difference is reduced when we control for differences in the personal characteristics of the different non-farm comparison sub-groups. This finding implies that income comparison using unconditional means, as frequently done in agricultural policy making, is potentially misleading. We also show that the income effect of personal characteristics is not the same for different comparison sub-groups, as has been assumed in previous studies of income disparities. Differences in personal characteristics, and the income effect of those characteristics, therefore need to be accounted for if income comparisons between farmers and non-farmers are to inform farm support policies.Decomposing household income differences between farmers and non-farmers: Empirical evidence from NorwaypublishedVersio
Insights to accelerate place-based at scale renewable energy landscapes: An analytical framework to typify the emergence of renewable energy clusters along the energy value chain
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Reassembling agro-human orders: Antibiotics in animal agriculture, 1940s–2000s
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Eit sosial-ontologisk perspektiv på konfliktane i utmarka
Get PDF«KAMPEN OM utmarka» var tittelen på den nasjonale temakonferansen som Norsk Bonde- og Småbrukarlag inviterte til på Gardermoen seinhausten 2022. Nett den tittelen var sjølvsagt ikkje tilfeldig, tvert om speglar den kjensla jamt fleire beitebrukarar i utmarka opplever om dagen, dei opplever at det går føre seg ein kamp om kva utmarka er og kva den skal vere. Denne artikkelen handlar nettopp om kva utmarka er. Den handlar om kva me grunnleggande sett snakkar om når me snakkar om utmark. Sagt på ein annan og litt meir filosofisk måte så handlar artikkelen om utmarkas sosiale ontologi og om korleis nett denne ontologien spelar seg ut i den daglege praksisen og forvaltinga av utmarka. Forfattarane argumenterer for at etter fleire tusen år med agrar dominans der jordbrukets interesser og behov har vore mesta einerådande, er det no forskjellige og konkurrerande ontologiar om kva utmarksområda eigentleg er. Med dette melder også spørsmålet seg om me i det heile teke kan og bør snakka om utmark lenger i forvaltning, forsking og politikk. For det kan skjula og tåkelegga, meir enn det klargjer for dei mange konfliktane som finn stad.A social-ontological perspective on conflicts in the outfieldsEit sosial-ontologisk perspektiv på konfliktane i utmarkapublishedVersio
Energy transitions of declining energy industries: the effect of renewable portfolio standards on the U.S. coal industry
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Protecting place: Norway, spatial imaginaries, and the governance of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in pig and poultry farming
Get PDFNorway has undertaken specific governance measures to eradicate and control MRSA and ESBL E. coli, two AMR bacterium, in pigs and poultry respectively. These measures are unique in the context of AMR governance in Europe and globally, and extend AMR governance in agriculture beyond a focus on reducing antibiotics use, towards direct efforts to control the prevalence of two AMR bacteria of concern. Based on interviews with public health, animal health, and agricultural industry organisations, this article contributes to a growing body of literature examining practices and policies of AMR governance and work on the intersection between spatial imaginaries and AMR governance. The article specifically analyses the different discursive dimensions of a dominant spatial imaginary encompassing Norway as a protective, protected and purifiable space. Within this context, AMR bacteria, as a wicked problem eluding human boundaries and barriers, is imagined as being directly actionable because the Norwegian agriculture and its spatial vulnerabilities are positioned as sufficiently stabilised that they can now be controlled. Broader agricultural and AMR governance arrangements in turn work to sustain social and material barriers to new AMR bacteria (re-)entering Norway. This sustained mode of action has arguably succeeded in reshaping Norwegian agriculture to the exclusion of these AMR bacterium from pigs and poultry. These efforts reinforce the spatial imaginary and protectionist regulatory practices that sustain Norway as a protected place.Protecting place: Norway, spatial imaginaries, and the governance of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in pig and poultry farmingpublishedVersio
