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Research Professor+47 97690518
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Deputy Director / Research Director Climate and Energy+47 97540217
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Research Professor+47 47477405
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Senior Researcher+45 27245917
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Research Professor+47 92290372
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Research Director, Biodiversity and Natural Resources+47 95118037
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Researcher+47 97303118
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Master's Student+47 41216970
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Master's Student+47 98099020
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Master's Student+47 90911094

FNI research focuses on international efforts to ensure conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and fair distribution of benefits from genetic resources. Interaction with trade agreements and intellectual property rights is central.
International environmental agreements on biological diversity seek to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and a fair distribution of benefits derived from genetic resources. FNI research is aimed at international processes with ramifications for these objectives, including interaction with international agreements on trade and agriculture. Central to this work is the interaction between regimes for access & benefit-sharing (ABS) from use of genetic resources and legislation on intellectual property rights to biological material.
Research is carried out with regard to the management of wild as well as domesticated genetic resources in agriculture and aquaculture. Both the CBD and the FAO Plant Treaty (ITPGRFA) are central to this work and the implementation as well as the interaction between them constitutes central topics of research.
The regulation of bioprospecting, GMOs and invasive alien species, and policy and law for the management of protected areas, are other central topics.
FNI also researches international forest politics, forest management and certification (ecolabelling). Central topics include the evolution of international forest policies and non-state certification schemes, as well as the interactions between public and private authorities in addressing such issues as protected areas, carbon sequestration in forests, illegal logging, and forest law enforcement, governance and trade.
RESEARCHERS
PROJECTS
BOOKS
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
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Aquaculture, Vol 605, 15.07.2025.
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Geoform, Vol 121, May 2025, Article 104245, 10 p.
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Tidsskriftet UTMARK, No 1, 2025, pp. 1-25.
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In Phillipa C. McCormack and Richard Caddell (eds), Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law. Edward Elgar, 2024, pp. 25-47.
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Journal of Applied Ecology, available online 27.06.2024, 12 p. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14712
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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Forskersonen.no, December 27, 2024. In Norwegian.
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Nationen, November 26, 2024. In Norwegian.
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Dagens Næringsliv, July 3, 2024. In Norwegian.
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World Aquaculture, June 2024.
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Aftenposten, May 27, 2024. In Norwegian.
NEWS
- How can legal frameworks protect the Arctic? FNI joins major nordic research project
- New PhD: Mari Lie Larsen on Salmon Aquaculture and Management
- FNI secures major research project on critical minerals in the Arctic
- Fridtjof Nansen Institute at Arctic Frontiers 2025
- Nytt forskningsprosjekt om alvorlig sykdom i norsk kjøttproduksjon
IN MEDIA
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Bønder i Malawi kjemper for å få tilbake lokale frøsorter for å bedre matsikkerheten (Malawi farmers reclaim local seeds for food security)
Panorama Nyheter, February 19, 2025. In Norwegian.
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Farmer-managed Seed Systems and Farmers' Rights: Dr. Regine Andersen’s Millennial Lecture at MSSRF
Millennial Lecture at M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), February 5, 2025.
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Expert flags lack of support for farmer-managed seed system
The Hindu, February 6, 2025.
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"Seabed Minerals Are Already Outdated"
High North News, August 15, 2024.
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Her svømmer fisken på land (Wild Salmon Crisis Spurs Push for Onshore Fish Farming)
NRK Vestland, July 10, 2024. In Norwegian.