Randi Kaarhus
Biographic Data
| ID | 169090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randi Kaarhus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaarhus |
| SIGNATURE | KAARHUS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0478-0265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Knowing a coastal Sámi landscape in Finnmark: Transmission and regeneration of knowledge and identity across three generations
This article discusses the role of knowledge and practices related to the natural environment in constructing and regenerating identities as Coastal Smi across generations.The discussion draws on empirical material from a local community on the coast of Finnmark in northern Norway.To what extent are coastal Smi identities today related to knowing specific landscapes?We explore how knowing a landscape through practical engagement and livelihood-re…
The contested nature of Afro-descendantquilomboland claims in Brazil
In Brazil, Afro-descendant quilombola communities were for the first time in history recognised as legal rights-holders to land in the 1988 constitution - 100 years after the abolition of slavery. Drawing on fieldwork in the quilombo Bombas in the state of São Paulo, and a review of relevant literature, this contribution explores the historical trajectory of the constitutional quilombo provision and how it has been translated into practice. Combi…
Commodification of forest carbon: Redd+ and socially embedded forest practices in Zanzibar
Land, investments and public-private partnerships: What happened to the Beira Agricultural Growth Corridor in Mozambique
Influential discourses present Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as essential for agricultural development in Africa; a parallel, critical debate on 'land rushes' has denounced Land Grabs, demanding increased accountability in FDI-based land deals. This article explores an initiative located in central Mozambique, the Beira Agricultural Growth Corridor (BAGC). It shows how the international fertiliser company Yara set out to enrol actors at differe…
Food culture and child-feeding practices in Njombe and Mvomero districts, Tanzania
This article explores food culture and child-feeding practices, focusing on children below five years among the Bena and Luguru ethnic groups located in Njombe and Mvomero rural districts in Tanzania. In these two societies existing cultural norms, and beliefs related to child feeding focusing on breastfeeding and complementary feeding were investigated aiming at understanding how every-day practices on child feeding are socially and culturally c…
How do Intra-household Gender Relations Affect Child Nutrition? Findings from Two Rural Districts in Tanzania
This article explores intra-household gender relations and how they affect children's nutritional status, focusing on children below five years old and their families in two distinct rural societies in Tanzania. The ethnic groups are the Luguru in the Mvomero District and the Bena in the Njombe District. In both societies, milk-based interventions involving the introduction of dairy goats and cattle have been implemented. The underlying assumptio…
Formalising land rights based on customary tenure: Community delimitation and women's access to land in central Mozambique
The Mozambican Land Law of 1997 intends to provide flexible rules of access to land, while securing local people's customary rights, as well as equal rights for women and men. Drawing on participant observation during a 'land delimitation' process in central Mozambique, this article analyses the complex negotiation ensuing from the implementation of the Land Law in a local community. It shows how the delimitation process provided spaces for asser…
Empowering farmers? Collaborative research at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
This article presents experiences with collaborative and on-farm research based on the implementation of a four-year Programme for Agricultural and Natural Resources Transformation for Improved Livelihoods (PANTIL) at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro, Tanzania. It outlines the basic elements in the implementation of a programme aimed to be demand-based, and discusses the challenges encountered in combining collaborative researc…
In the Shadow of a Conflict: Crisis in Zimbabwe and its effects in Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia
No Meal without Ugali? Social Significance of Food and Consumption in a Tanzanian Village
Employing diet and cuisine as analytical concepts, this article focuses on cultural categories and social meanings of food in Malinzanga village in southern Tanzania. Through analyses of access to foodstuffs, sequence of meals, and methods of preparation, the article shows how key elements in a basic meal structure are used locally to characterize and classify people-both in terms of ethnic group membership and in terms of respectable social stat…
Cecilie Ødegaard: Mobility, markets and indigenous socialities: Contemporary migration in the Peruvian Andes
Competing Claims and Contested Boundaries: Legitimating Land Rights in Isiolo District, Northern Kenya
People from five different ethnic groups share the territory that is Isiolo District, situated in northern Kenya. This article gives an account of the different groups' claims to land in this inter-ethnic setting, which is located in the border area of the vast drylands southeast of the Sahara. Presenting contemporary claims in a narrative form, the authors illustrate how these claims seek legitimacy through reference to historical processes, to …
Women’s Land Rights and Land Tenure Reforms in Malawi: What Difference Does Matriliny Make
Present‐day Malawi is, like a number of other countries in sub‐Saharan Africa, involved in land‐tenure reform processes aimed at the formalisation of 'customary' land rights through the registering of individual (family) titles. These reform processes also affect women's land rights in areas where land tenure has traditionally been based on matrilineal rules and practices, which is the case in southern and central Malawi. While formalisation of c…
Perceptions and practices of farmer empowerment in Tanzania
The purpose of this article is to review the implementation of various empowerment interventions in Tanzania. Data for the review are based on field visits to programmes/projects/organisations involved in implementing empowerment interventions in various regions of the country. These visits involved key-informant interviews, sample surveys, and focus-group discussions with farmers. The review highlights the perceptions of empowerment at the level…
Bokanmeldelser
Research-based Land Policies and Policy-based Research: Reflections on a World Bank Policy Research Report
The 2003 World Bank Policy Research Report titled Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction presents a diversified and—to some extent—revised neoliberal approach to land policies and property rights. This revision includes a modification of earlier World Bank perspectives on the privatisation of communal property rights as a general condition for economic growth and rural development. The report further provides broad perspectives and a fair…
Women's Land Rights in Tanzania and South Africa: A Human Rights Based Perspective on Formalisation
One of the critical issues in current debates on land policies in Africa is how to balance equity considerations with the quest for potentially more effective and productive uses of land. In this article, we explore the strengths and weaknesses of a human rights based approach (HRBA) to development in securing women's land rights—using Tanzania and South Africa as examples. We analyse the relationship between gender-neutral laws and policies aimi…
Kunnskap, refleksivitet og praksis i sosialantropologi som vitenskapsfag – og studiefag
Introduksjon: Om antropologi og utvikling
Competing Claims and Contested Boundaries: Legitimating Land Rights in Isiolo District, Northern Kenya
People from five different ethnic groups share the territory that is Isiolo District, situated in northern Kenya. This article gives an account of the different groups' claims to land in this inter-ethnic setting, which is located in the border area of the vast drylands southeast of the Sahara. Presenting contemporary claims in a narrative form, the authors illustrate how these claims seek legitimacy through reference to historical processes, to …
Commodification of forest carbon: Redd+ and socially embedded forest practices in Zanzibar
Land, investments and public-private partnerships: What happened to the Beira Agricultural Growth Corridor in Mozambique
Influential discourses present Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as essential for agricultural development in Africa; a parallel, critical debate on 'land rushes' has denounced Land Grabs, demanding increased accountability in FDI-based land deals. This article explores an initiative located in central Mozambique, the Beira Agricultural Growth Corridor (BAGC). It shows how the international fertiliser company Yara set out to enrol actors at differe…
No Meal without Ugali? Social Significance of Food and Consumption in a Tanzanian Village
Employing diet and cuisine as analytical concepts, this article focuses on cultural categories and social meanings of food in Malinzanga village in southern Tanzania. Through analyses of access to foodstuffs, sequence of meals, and methods of preparation, the article shows how key elements in a basic meal structure are used locally to characterize and classify people-both in terms of ethnic group membership and in terms of respectable social stat…
Women’s Land Rights and Land Tenure Reforms in Malawi: What Difference Does Matriliny Make
Present‐day Malawi is, like a number of other countries in sub‐Saharan Africa, involved in land‐tenure reform processes aimed at the formalisation of 'customary' land rights through the registering of individual (family) titles. These reform processes also affect women's land rights in areas where land tenure has traditionally been based on matrilineal rules and practices, which is the case in southern and central Malawi. While formalisation of c…
Formalising land rights based on customary tenure: Community delimitation and women's access to land in central Mozambique
The Mozambican Land Law of 1997 intends to provide flexible rules of access to land, while securing local people's customary rights, as well as equal rights for women and men. Drawing on participant observation during a 'land delimitation' process in central Mozambique, this article analyses the complex negotiation ensuing from the implementation of the Land Law in a local community. It shows how the delimitation process provided spaces for asser…
Women's Land Rights in Tanzania and South Africa: A Human Rights Based Perspective on Formalisation
One of the critical issues in current debates on land policies in Africa is how to balance equity considerations with the quest for potentially more effective and productive uses of land. In this article, we explore the strengths and weaknesses of a human rights based approach (HRBA) to development in securing women's land rights—using Tanzania and South Africa as examples. We analyse the relationship between gender-neutral laws and policies aimi…
Food culture and child-feeding practices in Njombe and Mvomero districts, Tanzania
This article explores food culture and child-feeding practices, focusing on children below five years among the Bena and Luguru ethnic groups located in Njombe and Mvomero rural districts in Tanzania. In these two societies existing cultural norms, and beliefs related to child feeding focusing on breastfeeding and complementary feeding were investigated aiming at understanding how every-day practices on child feeding are socially and culturally c…
How do Intra-household Gender Relations Affect Child Nutrition? Findings from Two Rural Districts in Tanzania
This article explores intra-household gender relations and how they affect children's nutritional status, focusing on children below five years old and their families in two distinct rural societies in Tanzania. The ethnic groups are the Luguru in the Mvomero District and the Bena in the Njombe District. In both societies, milk-based interventions involving the introduction of dairy goats and cattle have been implemented. The underlying assumptio…
Perceptions and practices of farmer empowerment in Tanzania
The purpose of this article is to review the implementation of various empowerment interventions in Tanzania. Data for the review are based on field visits to programmes/projects/organisations involved in implementing empowerment interventions in various regions of the country. These visits involved key-informant interviews, sample surveys, and focus-group discussions with farmers. The review highlights the perceptions of empowerment at the level…
The contested nature of Afro-descendantquilomboland claims in Brazil
In Brazil, Afro-descendant quilombola communities were for the first time in history recognised as legal rights-holders to land in the 1988 constitution - 100 years after the abolition of slavery. Drawing on fieldwork in the quilombo Bombas in the state of São Paulo, and a review of relevant literature, this contribution explores the historical trajectory of the constitutional quilombo provision and how it has been translated into practice. Combi…
Introduksjon: Om antropologi og utvikling
Kunnskap, refleksivitet og praksis i sosialantropologi som vitenskapsfag – og studiefag
Introduksjon: Om antropologi og utvikling
Kunnskap, refleksivitet og praksis i sosialantropologi som vitenskapsfag – og studiefag
Research-based Land Policies and Policy-based Research: Reflections on a World Bank Policy Research Report
The 2003 World Bank Policy Research Report titled Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction presents a diversified and—to some extent—revised neoliberal approach to land policies and property rights. This revision includes a modification of earlier World Bank perspectives on the privatisation of communal property rights as a general condition for economic growth and rural development. The report further provides broad perspectives and a fair…
Women's Land Rights in Tanzania and South Africa: A Human Rights Based Perspective on Formalisation
One of the critical issues in current debates on land policies in Africa is how to balance equity considerations with the quest for potentially more effective and productive uses of land. In this article, we explore the strengths and weaknesses of a human rights based approach (HRBA) to development in securing women's land rights—using Tanzania and South Africa as examples. We analyse the relationship between gender-neutral laws and policies aimi…
Bokanmeldelser
Perceptions and practices of farmer empowerment in Tanzania
The purpose of this article is to review the implementation of various empowerment interventions in Tanzania. Data for the review are based on field visits to programmes/projects/organisations involved in implementing empowerment interventions in various regions of the country. These visits involved key-informant interviews, sample surveys, and focus-group discussions with farmers. The review highlights the perceptions of empowerment at the level…
Women’s Land Rights and Land Tenure Reforms in Malawi: What Difference Does Matriliny Make
Present‐day Malawi is, like a number of other countries in sub‐Saharan Africa, involved in land‐tenure reform processes aimed at the formalisation of 'customary' land rights through the registering of individual (family) titles. These reform processes also affect women's land rights in areas where land tenure has traditionally been based on matrilineal rules and practices, which is the case in southern and central Malawi. While formalisation of c…
Cecilie Ødegaard: Mobility, markets and indigenous socialities: Contemporary migration in the Peruvian Andes
Competing Claims and Contested Boundaries: Legitimating Land Rights in Isiolo District, Northern Kenya
People from five different ethnic groups share the territory that is Isiolo District, situated in northern Kenya. This article gives an account of the different groups' claims to land in this inter-ethnic setting, which is located in the border area of the vast drylands southeast of the Sahara. Presenting contemporary claims in a narrative form, the authors illustrate how these claims seek legitimacy through reference to historical processes, to …
No Meal without Ugali? Social Significance of Food and Consumption in a Tanzanian Village
Employing diet and cuisine as analytical concepts, this article focuses on cultural categories and social meanings of food in Malinzanga village in southern Tanzania. Through analyses of access to foodstuffs, sequence of meals, and methods of preparation, the article shows how key elements in a basic meal structure are used locally to characterize and classify people-both in terms of ethnic group membership and in terms of respectable social stat…
In the Shadow of a Conflict: Crisis in Zimbabwe and its effects in Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia
How do Intra-household Gender Relations Affect Child Nutrition? Findings from Two Rural Districts in Tanzania
This article explores intra-household gender relations and how they affect children's nutritional status, focusing on children below five years old and their families in two distinct rural societies in Tanzania. The ethnic groups are the Luguru in the Mvomero District and the Bena in the Njombe District. In both societies, milk-based interventions involving the introduction of dairy goats and cattle have been implemented. The underlying assumptio…
Formalising land rights based on customary tenure: Community delimitation and women's access to land in central Mozambique
The Mozambican Land Law of 1997 intends to provide flexible rules of access to land, while securing local people's customary rights, as well as equal rights for women and men. Drawing on participant observation during a 'land delimitation' process in central Mozambique, this article analyses the complex negotiation ensuing from the implementation of the Land Law in a local community. It shows how the delimitation process provided spaces for asser…
Empowering farmers? Collaborative research at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
This article presents experiences with collaborative and on-farm research based on the implementation of a four-year Programme for Agricultural and Natural Resources Transformation for Improved Livelihoods (PANTIL) at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro, Tanzania. It outlines the basic elements in the implementation of a programme aimed to be demand-based, and discusses the challenges encountered in combining collaborative researc…
Food culture and child-feeding practices in Njombe and Mvomero districts, Tanzania
This article explores food culture and child-feeding practices, focusing on children below five years among the Bena and Luguru ethnic groups located in Njombe and Mvomero rural districts in Tanzania. In these two societies existing cultural norms, and beliefs related to child feeding focusing on breastfeeding and complementary feeding were investigated aiming at understanding how every-day practices on child feeding are socially and culturally c…
Commodification of forest carbon: Redd+ and socially embedded forest practices in Zanzibar
Land, investments and public-private partnerships: What happened to the Beira Agricultural Growth Corridor in Mozambique
Influential discourses present Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as essential for agricultural development in Africa; a parallel, critical debate on 'land rushes' has denounced Land Grabs, demanding increased accountability in FDI-based land deals. This article explores an initiative located in central Mozambique, the Beira Agricultural Growth Corridor (BAGC). It shows how the international fertiliser company Yara set out to enrol actors at differe…
The contested nature of Afro-descendantquilomboland claims in Brazil
In Brazil, Afro-descendant quilombola communities were for the first time in history recognised as legal rights-holders to land in the 1988 constitution - 100 years after the abolition of slavery. Drawing on fieldwork in the quilombo Bombas in the state of São Paulo, and a review of relevant literature, this contribution explores the historical trajectory of the constitutional quilombo provision and how it has been translated into practice. Combi…
Knowing a coastal Sámi landscape in Finnmark: Transmission and regeneration of knowledge and identity across three generations
This article discusses the role of knowledge and practices related to the natural environment in constructing and regenerating identities as Coastal Smi across generations.The discussion draws on empirical material from a local community on the coast of Finnmark in northern Norway.To what extent are coastal Smi identities today related to knowing specific landscapes?We explore how knowing a landscape through practical engagement and livelihood-re…
Political science (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (6 works) · Socioeconomics (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works)