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Book produced through the Mali Programme :Une Histoire de Tombouctou par Tor Arve Benjaminsen et Gunnvor Berge, traduit par Yves Boutroue, Actes Sud
Films produced through the Mali Programme :
Timbuktu: African Eldorado or End of the World?
Timbuktu: Where Water is Life and Milk is Food
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About
the Mali programme at the University of Oslo As spin-offs of the Mali-Programme, several new projects
were initiated within the Programme during 1996 and 1997 through the NUFU
Programme. These individual projects are now co-ordinated through individual
institutes : the Department
of Classical and Romance Studies (Klassisk og romansk institutt),
the Department
of Pharmacy and the Biology
Department at the University of Oslo; the Centre for Development Studies
(CDS) at the University of Bergen and the Chr.
Michelsen's Institute in Bergen. |
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| The SSE-Research Project entitled Environment & Development in Mali is comprised of three sub-projects initiated by researchers from three institutes at the University of Oslo: the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), the Institute of Geography and the Nordic School of Nutrition. The main focus of the project has been the inter-relationship between food security and the management of natural resources in the Gourma region in the Sahel-belt of northern Mali. This region is one of the most isolated areas in Mali, and was hard hit by the severe droughts in the 1970s and 1980s and by an armed rebellion from 1991- 1995. By concentrating research efforts in this region, it has been the intention to gain as detailed an understanding as possible of the complex ecological, social and economic system of the area. The Norwegian Church Aid has a long term development project in the Gourma supported by the SSE-Programme. The aim has been that insights gained from the research will be used for practical development work in the area. Comparative studies have been carried out in other ecological zones, Koutiala in southern Mali in particular. Research within the Gourma project has greatly enhanced the understanding of a particular area in northern Mali which has previously received little attention. |
Publications from the SSE Research Project - Environment and Development in Mali
Article in UNIFORUM, University of Oslo, Nr. 18, 1999
Article in UNIFORUM , University of Oslo, Nr. 04l 1996
Article
in FORSKNING , Research Council of Norway, Nr. 5 1994
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The ultimate goal of the Timbuktu Manuscripts Project is to preserve and promote wide access to the invaluable cultural and literary heritage held in both public and private collections of historic manuscripts in the Timbuktu area. Through training and upgrading facilities, the project will increase the capacity of the national Ahmed Baba Centre for Documentation and Research (CEDRAB), to perform its essential missions of restoration and conservation, and scientific exploitation and dissemination of the content of the manuscripts currently in its possession. Finally, CEDRAB will have the capacity to provide services to private collectors and owners. Infrastructure and research collaboration established through the project will be made available to private collectors under service agreements. In the long run, this capacity will be extendable to regional, national, and international collections of literary heritage including archive centers of all kinds. The project is comprised of three highly integrated components : A. Research & Dissemination, Cooperating institutions: Centre Ahmed Baba, (CEDRAB/IHERI-AB) Timbuktu,
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Information: Alida Jay Boye
Editors: Kristoffer Ring
Document created: 12.06.2001