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Ragnhild Overå
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Ragnhild Overå

Position

Professor

Affiliation

E-mail
ragnhild.overa@uib.no
Phone number
+47 55583090
+4797124809
Visitor address
Fosswinckels gate 6
5007 Bergen
Postal address
P.O. Box 7802
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

Ragnhild Overå

Position

Professor

Affiliation

Research groups

Short info

Human geographer mainly working in African countries. Research interests include gender, small-scale fisheries, fish trade, food systems, food and nutrition security, territorial markets, informal economies, entrepreneurship, urban development, globalization, political ecology.
Research

I am a human geographer mainly working in Ghana and other African countries. My research always involves fieldwork where socio-economic processes in local communities are viewed in context of processes on national and global scales. Research interests include gender, entrepreneurship, innovation, informal economies, market trade, food and nutrition security, small-scale fisheries, land tenure, petroleum industry, ICT development, migration, globalisation and political ecology.

Current research projects:

  • 2024-2028 Reimagining Food Systems for Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation, and Social Justice. Funding: The Research Council of Norway through the International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation from The New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF). https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-projects/smallfishclim-reimagining-food-systems-for-climate-change-adaptation
  • 2024-2027: Small fish for food and nutrition security in Africa (SmallFish4Food). Funding: The Research Council of Norway through the SDGs Pilot Call by the Global Research Council. (Co-PI WP3: Markets and Consumers). https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-projects/smallfish4food-small-fish-for-food-and-nutrition-security-in-africa
  • 2018-2022: Small Fish and Food security (SmallFishFood): Towards innovative integration of fish in African food systems to improve nutrition https://smallfishfood.org/ The SmallFishFood project is funded by LEAP-Agri (Long term EU Africa research and innovation Partnership on food and nutrition security and sustainable Agriculture, Horizon 2020) and is led by Jeppe Kolding, Department of Biological Sciences, UiB. Together, biologists, nutritionists, anthropologists and geographers investigate the contribution of small fish species such as anchovies and sardines to the food and nutrition security of low-income groups in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. My research focuses on the processing and marketing links of the fish value chain.
  • 2018-2023: Enclaving: Patterns of global futures in three African cities. This Research Council of Norway (FRIHUMSAM) funded project is led by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Department of Social Anthropology, UiB, and investigates urbanisation and multiple inequalities in three African cities: Johannesburg, Maputo and Accra. My research focuses on gender and socio-economic dynamics of households in a newly constructed high-cost residental area in the capital city of Ghana, Accra.
  • 2019-2022: Mapping marine resource conflicts across sub-Saharan Africa: patterns, drivers and solutions for coastal communities (MARICA). Project leader. Elizabeth Selig, Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). Funding: NORGLOBAL, The Research Council of Norway.
Teaching

Development; globalisation; gender; natural resource governance; agriculture; fisheries; food security; political ecology; migration; the power of maps; qualitative methodology; research ethics; theory of science.

 

Publications
Master’s thesis
Conference lecture
Academic literature review
Doctoral thesis (PhD)
Academic article
Editorial/Leader article
Academic book chapter
Research report

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.