Crisis? What Crisis? Marginal Farming, Rural Communities and Climate Robustness: The Case of Northern Norway

Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Rønningen, Katrina

doi:10.48416/ijsaf.v21i1.155

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“…Since the 1940s the national agricultural policies have been developed within a dominant "production discourse," shaped by continuous modernization and rationalization processes and primarily informed by science-based perspectives on meat production (see Risvoll and Kaarhus 2020). The agricultural sector in Norway is run by a large bureaucracy providing subsidies, incentives, and compensation for maintaining active and technologically advanced agriculture (Bjørkhaug and Rønningen 2013;Skogen 2014). The interactions between the state and farmers' interest organizations are well regulated (Skogen 2014).…”

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Falling between the Cracks of the Governing Systems: Risk and Uncertainty in Pastoralism in Northern Norway

Risvoll

Hovelsrud

Riseth

2022

Weather, Climate, and Society

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Rapid and interacting change pose increasing threat to livelihoods and food production, and pastoralists in Nordland, northern Norway are at cross-roads both economically and culturally. Some of these changes are localized and pertain to changing weather and grazing conditions caused by climate change and land fragmentation. Others, driven by national management policies and governance specifically related to predators are poorly adjusted for the different and localized contexts. The pastoralists are inherently adaptive and have a long history of responding well to variable changing conditions. This is now changing with the continued increasing pressures from many directions. Central government systematically ignores pastoralists’ traditional knowledge and enforce narrow sector policies to be implemented at regional and local level. We address the effect of how institutional, physical and societal constraints challenge pastoralists’ prospects for sustainable adaptation. Our results show how pastoralists’ livelihoods become compromised and potentially threatened because they are forced to respond in ways that they know are counter-productive in the long run.Adaptation outcomes are affected by different approaches and epistemologies that are situated across scale and context in terms of regional and national regulations versus local empirical reality among the pastoral communities. This study concludes that radical change is needed towards a more holistic governance where multiple knowledge systems are integrated to ensure sustainable adaptation at all levels. This study is based on extensive and long-term field work among reindeer herders and sheep farmers in Nordland, through a collaborative process of knowledge co-production.

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Falling between the Cracks of the Governing Systems: Risk and Uncertainty in Pastoralism in Northern Norway

Risvoll

Hovelsrud

Riseth

2022

Weather, Climate, and Society

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“…Agricultural production has, traditionally, been organized through family farming, where the ownership of farms has been passed on through kinship over generations (Bjørkhaug & Blekesaune, 2008). Norwegian agriculture is heavily politicized, based on a system of subsidies and annual negotiations over major goals and price levels between the two national farmers' organizations and state authorities (Bjørkhaug & Rønningen, 2014). Farmers' total incomes vary significantly, but the mean wage income for full-time Norwegian dairy and livestock farmers is considerably smaller than for Norwegians in general (SSB, 2020a(SSB, , 2020b.…”

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Crowdfunding of GHG mitigation measures in agriculture: A feasible contribution to the climate challenges? Sociocultural constraints and enablers in Norway

Farstad

Hårstad

2022

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography

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Agriculture is one sector under pressure when it comes to mitigation of climate change. To overcome the economic barriers preventing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures from being implemented, this paper explores whether crowdfunding could be a feasible solution to this problem. The paper theoretically and empirically explores sociocultural barriers and enablers for crowdfunding aimed at agricultural GHG mitigation measures in Norway. The empirical analysis is based on focus-group interviews with farmers as potential fund-seekers and citizens as potential backers. The data are analysed in light of certain cultural characteristics previously identified as typical for Norway. Our findings indicate that, while these cultural characteristics manifest themselves in a crowdfunding context, they are not all-embracing. Our analysis points to opportunities for successful crowdfunding for GHG mitigation measures in agriculture given the right premises and including the right motivated people.

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Crisis? What Crisis? Marginal Farming, Rural Communities and Climate Robustness: The Case of Northern Norway

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Falling between the Cracks of the Governing Systems: Risk and Uncertainty in Pastoralism in Northern Norway

Falling between the Cracks of the Governing Systems: Risk and Uncertainty in Pastoralism in Northern Norway

Crowdfunding of GHG mitigation measures in agriculture: A feasible contribution to the climate challenges? Sociocultural constraints and enablers in Norway

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