Kjell Havnevik
Senior researcher Kjell Havnevik. Photo by Susanne Linderos.
Research Project
Land Governance, sustainability and poverty in rural Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Senior researcher at NAI since 2006.
Academic background
Kjell Havnevik is a senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute (50%) and adjunct professor at the Swedish University of Agriculture (SLU), Uppsala and Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway. He has more than three decades of research and teaching experience from Norwegian (Chr. Michelsen Institute and University of Bergen), Tanzanian (University of Dar es Salaam) and Swedish (Nordic Africa Institute and SLU) universities and research institutions. Between 1996 and 2005 he was professor of Rural Development at SLU, supervising a number of Swedish, African and Asian students for their Phd theses in rural development and natural resource governance in countries such as Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, India, Vietnam and Sweden.
Subject areas
Tanzania, East and Southern Africa, globalisation, international financial institutions and development assistance, rural livelihoods, rural development, natural resource governance, research supervision, education and information.
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Contact
kjell.havnevik@nai.uu.se
Tel: +46 18 56 22 55 (direct)
research network on livelihoods
A Swedish interdisciplinary research network related to Livelihood Diversification, Land and Natural Resource Governance in sub-Saharan Africa has been established. Kjell Havnevik is one of the coordinators of the network.