Division of Food Production and Society
Measures to increase sustainability in Norwegian vegetable production.
Reduced use of herbicides and improved soil conditions - using false seedbed and catch crops.
Projects
NIBIO is a project driven research institute and collects approximately 400 million NOK annually in project funding from both national and international sources. A lot of activity is carried out through EU and EEA-projects and we also participate in research projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America. NIBIO coordinates several large international projects with a particular focus on food security and climate change. The list of projects is not complete.
Division of Food Production and Society
Towards a Future for Common Grazing - rules, norms and cooperation in outlying grazing areas
Prosjektets hovudspørsmål er:
Division of Environment and Natural Resources
Gliricidia Impacts on Soil fertility, Crop yields and Nutrition in Zambia
A joint research effort for documenting the effects of
Agroforestry in Barents region
As productivity of forestry is lower in northern/arctic areas as compared to more southern locations, multiple use of forests should be emphasized in Barents region. Agroforestry, a practice which intentionally combines agriculture and forestry to create integrated and sustainable land-use systems, is one potential but poorly understood and developed practice of forest multiple use.