INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATIONat the Department of International Environment and

Development Studies (Noragric)

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Institutional partnerships With more than 40 years of collaboration between UMB

and institutions in Africa, Asia and South-East Europe, Noragric has a broad network of worldwide contacts. Noragric also has academic partnerships in Europe, Western Balkans and in Latin America.

Academic cooperation in Africa includes Ethiopia, Mali, Tanzania and Sudan; in Asia Nepal, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka.

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. The full list of partners is on http://www.umb.no/noragric/article/institutional-cooperation-2

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Ethiopia: Hawassa University and Mekelle UniversityAn academic partnership for improving livelihoods Institutional agreement with Hawassa University started in 1989.

With Mekelle University in 1994 Funded by: Royal Norwegian Embassy/Norwegian Ministry of Foreign

Affairs. New project period: 2010-2013The cooperation includes: 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

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Tanzania: Sokoine University of Agriculture

1973: Cooperation started with a BSc programme in forestry 1974: Institutional agreement signed 2000-2005: Food Security and Household Income for Small-holder

Farmers in Tanzania (TARPII-SUA) 2005-2009: Programme for Agricultural and Natural Resources

Transformation for Improved Livelihoods (PANTIL) 2010-2014: Enhancing Pro-poor Innovations in Natural Resources

and Agricultural Value-chains (EPINAV) 2010-2014: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation

(CCIAM) Two-month field course offered for Noragric’s Master students in

third semester of studies.

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Tanzania: University of Dar es SalaamThe Institute of Marine Sciences is the focal point of the cooperation at the University of Dar es Salaam. UDSM is also partner in CCIAM programme (see previous slide)

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

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Mali: Adapting agriculture and livestock production in Mali to climate change

Objective: improve food security by making agriculture and livestock production in northern and central Mali more resistant to climate change

Funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2011-2015) Focus of the project is on applied research combining on-station

and on-farm research Establish a monitoring system to assess the progress of the

research components; support the establishment of research centers of the project's main partner, Institut d'Economie Rurale (IER)

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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 evalu-

ation to provide technical advice on monitoring and evaluation to build local capacity on monitoring and evaluation.

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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 research, and staff and student exchange.

Topics: resource management and agriculture, sustainable water and sanitation, post-earthquake recovery, and poverty alleviation. 

Ongoing international MSc programme co-organized by UMB, CIIT and Tribhuvan University (Nepal) in Sustainable Water, Sanitation, Health and Development.

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South-East Europe: Cooperation with universities in Western Balkan

Higher education, research and development in Western Balkans (HERD) programme (capacity building, research, education programmes). Funded by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010-2015). The HERD Agricultural Sector programme is coordinated at Noragric.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: University of Banja Luka; University of Tuzla; University of Mostar; University of Sarajevo

Croatia: University of Osijek; University of Zagreb Kosovo: University of Prishtina Macedonia: University of S.C. & M. of Skopje Montenegro: University of Montenegro Serbia: University of Belgrade and University of Novi Sad Slovenia: University of Maribor

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Other institutional partnerships

For the full list please see the Institutional cooperation pages on our website

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