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The Nile
In his new TV documentary, ‘The Nile Quest’, UiB Professor Terje Tvedt takes us on a spectacular journey through the history of the fabled river to today’s looming conflict over the control of the Nile’s precious but limited resource.
small-scale farmers in the Bagre region in Burkina Faso, participating in a project to become more self-sufficient in rice, used to illustrate article in the UiB Magazine.
Climate change threatens world food supplies. UiB researcher Birgit Kopainsky uses simulators to see how these changes affect food systems. She hopes her research can help predict future food crises.
Surgeon and UiB researcher Sven Young using a smart phone to take a picture of an X-ray.
Traffic accidents are a huge burden on the health care system in Malawi. The University of Bergen (UiB) is a partner in a project to train more surgeons in Malawi.
Illustration photo showing farmer holding up produce, used to illustrate article on opening key note lecture at Bergen Summer Research School 2014.
Professor Olivier De Schutter believes that social innovations may hold the key to change the global food system.
Professor Olivier De Schutter
This year’s list of plenary sessions is packed with exciting titles and original researchers.
Ronaldo Munck
Development expert urges Universities to help reflect on how the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) have influenced and distorted development policies and strategies.
UiB Global launces a seminar series for researchers and students engaged with development related challenges.
Thunder storms can build up in an hour or two. Here on a Ferry to Zanzibar.
UiB has teamed up with universities in South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda to develop the meteorological capacity of the three countries.
Studenter sitter på rekke. Vi ser bare deler av kroppen og hendene.
UiB Global offers an opportunity to prospective post-doctoral researchers to develop a project in the spring of 2014. Apply by April 7.
How does climate change influence the growth and spreading of malaria in Africa? This question is at the core of climate and malaria expert Torleif Markussen Lunde’s work.

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