Programme

Conference

Abstracts

Global myths - local realities? (Re)exploring the links between Environment and Development in Africa.
Thematic AEGIS Conference Trondheim 14-15 April

Venue: Gløshaugen Campus, auditorium H2, Main Building ("Hovedbygningen")

Thursday April 14^th:

09.00-09.30	Registration and coffee
09.30-09.45	Opening address by Knut Stenberg, Coordinator of the Programme for Development Cooperation
Session I	Conservation and Development Chair: Knut Stenberg
09.45-10.15	Jørgen Klein: Deforestation and conservation in Madagascar: Grand theories and local realities.
10.15-10.45	Susanne K. Hanssen: Forest conservation or forest fragmentation? A GIS study to estimate landscape changes and evaluate land-use strategies.
10.45-11.15	Ephraim Mwepya Shitima: Forest conservation: A Scientific or indigenous Practice?
11.15-11.45	Coffee
11.45-12.15	Shirley Brooks: Local Conservation, Global Agendas?  New Forms of Nature Tourism in Southern Africa.
12.15-12.45	Haakon Lein: Transfrontier conservation and local community development in Southern Africa.
12.45-13.45	Lunch
13.45-14.15	Christina Skarpe: The Chobe Elephant Problem – myth or reality?
14.15-14.45	Godfrey J. Zimba: An exercise in conservation and development: Evaluating and contrasting two development metaphors. The case of sustainable tourism development in South Luangwa National Park
14.45-15.15	Coffee
Session II	Nature Management Chair: Harald Aspen
15.15-15.45	Anders Skonhoft: The Bioeconomics of controlling an African rodent pest species.
15.45-16.15	Bayush Tsegaye: Conservation of plant genetic resources and the challenges to farmers in Africa.
16.15-16.45	Suzanne Y. A. Tete: Indigenous Nature Conservation Practices in Ghana - The Case of the Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
19.00 -	Conference Dinner at Grenaderen Restaurant Kongsgårdsgt. 1 (Phone: 73 51 66 80) (Close to the Cathedral Nidarosdomen)

Friday April 15th:

Session III	Environmentalism, Politics and Poverty Chair: Haakon Lein
09.00-09.30	Mario Zamponi: Disciplining nature. Land, environment and political coercion in colonial Southern Africa.
09.30-10.00	Harald Aspen: Food aid and impression management in Wälo, Ethiopia.
10.00-10.30	Anne Margrethe Brigham: Agricultural Exports and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries: The Case of Tanzania.
10.30-11.00	Ndubuisi Nwokolo: Rural Poverty and Environmental Degradation in Africa: The Nigerian Experience
11.00-11.30	Coffee
Session IV	Climate Chair: Haakon Lein
11.30-12.00	Svein Ege: Rainfall variation in Kombolcha (Ethiopia): Climate change or natural variation?
12.00-12.30	Ånund Killingtveit: About Water, Trees Environment and Development in Africa
12.30-13.30	Lunch
Session V	Environment and conflicts Chair: Svein Ege
13.30-14.00	Jan Ketil Rød: African Civil Wars, 1970-2001. Does geography matter?
14.00-14.30	Rais Boneza: The Somalis Deegan as the underlying source of structural violence in the Great Lakes Region.
14.30-15.00	Njuguna Kibutu: “Development”, land policies and marginalization in Kenya’s Masaailand.
	Closing remarks

Editor: Gunn Hilde Garte, Contact address: gunn.hilde.garte@svt.ntnu.no, Updated: 12.04.2005.