Food and Water Security in a changing world
28 November - 9 December 2022
Makerere University (with a hub at UiB)
The research school offers two parallel PhD courses:
Maximum of 20 participants in each course at Makerere University, plus 5 at a hub in Bergen.
The two parallel courses of MBRS will focus on and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and use the (e.g., the transboundary Mount Elgon in Uganda/Kenya) as an empirical case study.
The world is currently facing multiple challenges caused by human action in the Anthropocene. The impacts of a changing climate, growing populations, biodiversity loss, environmental degradation, and more recently economic distortions due to Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, pose complex challenges for humanity and all other living beings.听The two courses will discuss interconnected threats and opportunities to the food system and for water security in a sustainability perspective.
PhD research school at Makerere University听with two parallel courses.
Sustainable Food Systems听(course leaders:听听and Inger M氓ren)
Access to Water and Water for Production听(course leader:听听and听Tore S忙tersdal)
The research school will also have a hub for participation from Bergen.
MBRS is hosted by听Global Challenges听at UiB.
Makerere-Bergen Research School builds on the annual Bergen Summer Research School, which every year welcomes 100 PhD candidates from all over the world to spend two weeks with some of Bergen鈥檚 best research groups.听
Natural resources, health, inequality, migration, and culture are some recurring themes of the expertise that is involved in the summer research school.听Read more about BSRS.
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