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The hypothesis of LANDRESPONSE is that pastoralists and small-scale farmers who are dispossessed of access to land are more inclined to either migrate or resist violently. Violent resistance will be studied with regard to the increasing numbers of armed groups labelled ‘jihadist’ in the Sahel. The project will investigate the nature of the links between land dispossession and elite capture on the one hand, and violent jihadist resistance to governments as well as migration on the other. These hypothesized links will be investigated using mainly qualitative methods with a particular focus on Mali as a ‘hub’ country in the Western Sahel. There is also an aim to expand the research beyond Mali and to include cases from other Sahelian countries. LANDRESPONSE is funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for 5 years from October 2022.
Greenmentality: A Political Ecology of the Green Economy in the Global South
The primary objective of this project is to investigate three distinct forms of the implementation of a green economy – ecotourism, carbon forestry and climate-smart agriculture – and their reactions from below in selected cases from East Africa and India. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway through its FRIPRO-Toppforsk programme for 2016-2021.
This project was an investigation into the political ecology of the relations between the Norwegian state and Sámi reindeer pastoralism in northern Norway. It was a collaboration between the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry in Kautokeino in Finnmark. The project was funded by the Research Council of Norway for 2012-2016.
Tor A. Benjaminsen
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Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Faculty of Landscape and Society
Department of International Environment and Development Studies
P.O. Box 5003
1432 Ås, Norway
Professor of Environment and Development Studies
Tor A. Benjaminsen
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Faculty of Landscape and Society
Department of International Environment and Development Studies
P.O. Box 5003
1432 Ås, Norway
Professor of Environment and Development Studies