Phone: +47 22 00 47 35 /
E-mail: nina.holmelin@cicero.oslo.no
My research interests lie in climate transitions and adaptive capacity to climate change and other large-scale changes, agriculture, sustainability, food security and development. As a human geographer, I do fieldwork and use mainly qualitative methods.
My work mainly concerns emissions reductions and adaptive capacity in agriculture and in local communities. I hold a PhD (2020) on farming flexibility, innovation and food security in small-scale farming systems, in the face of climate change and other large-scale changes. My publications address potentials for and barriers to adaptation under climate change in Himalayan farming, gender relations and decision-making within the household, and the logic, meanings and values of subsistence production. The relations between rural development, climate, markets for food and labor, and migration inform my work. Lately, I have also been engaged in projects on emissions reductions and climate transitions in the Norwegian food system towards social, environmental, and climate sustainability.
I am a Human Geographer and use mainly qualitative methods including case studies and intensive, ethnographic fieldwork methods. Inter-disciplinary research and mixed methods are important to me and I have some background in anthropology, development economics, political science, sociology and system dynamics in addition to my specialization as a geographer. I have fieldwork experience from Nepal, Peru, Estonia and Norway and I have worked on food production and food security in Malawi. I am also interested in global production, distribution and trade of food, and food security on local, national and global scales.
Projects
- Sis-klimat- Climate transitions in the Norwegian food system How can the Norwegian food production - consumption system be changed towards sustainable production of more climate friendly food? This overarching question targets opportunities for climate change adaptation and emission reductions, but also looks for co-benefits for, and stronger links between, producers and consumers.
- VOM – insentiver til Virkemidler for Omstilling av Matsystemet Emissions of greenhouse gases must be reduced drastically and rapidly to keep the climate goals in the Paris Agreement within reach. The food system is an important source of emissions, with a major impact on land use, biodiversity, and health.
Publications and outreach at CICERO
Gå til: Journal article Report/dissertation Part of a book/report Conference lecture and academic presentation
Journal article
2021
- Nina Holmelin, 2021 National specialization policy versus farmers’ priorities: Balancing subsistence farming and cash cropping in Nepal Journal of Rural Studies, EN
2019
- Nina Holmelin, 2019 Competing gender norms and social practice in Himalayan farm management World Development, EN
2013
- Nina Holmelin, Tor Halfdan Aase, 2013 Flexibility of scope, type and temporality in Mustang, Nepal. Opportunities for adaptation in a farming system facing climatic and market uncertainty Sustainability, EN
Report/dissertation
2020
- Nina Holmelin, 2020 Flexible adaptation in Himalayan small-scale farming : Subsistence production, gender relations, and adaptive capacity under climatic and market uncertainty in Nepal EN
2019
- Bob van Oort, Nina Holmelin, 2019 Klimagassutslipp fra norsk mat NB
Part of a book/report
2017
- Nina Holmelin, 2017 Minor Crops and Major Opportunities in Dolakha, Nepal EN
- Tor Halfdan Aase, Nina Holmelin, Bob van Oort, Nand Kishor Agrawal, Sarah Nischalke, Wenling Wang, Sher Ahmed, Prem Sagar Chapagain, Suman Bisht, 2017 Current Adaptations and Future Prospects of Himalayan Farming EN
Conference lecture and academic presentation
2020
- Nina Holmelin, 2020 The role of socio-economic and gender inequalities in climate change adaptation in the rural Global South EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2020 Flexible adaptation in Himalayan small-scale farming EN
2019
- Nina Holmelin, 2019 Subsistence and market: How risk management influences decision-making among smallholding Nepalese farmers EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2019 Klima, mat og migrasjon NO
2018
- Nina Holmelin, 2018 Women empowerment meets tradition: Competing gender norms and changing social practice in Himalaya EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2018 Migrasjonens rolle i tilpasning til klimaendringer: Nepal NO
- Nina Holmelin, Karina Standal, Jennifer Joy West, 2018 Gender and Climate Change EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2018 Local flexibility as adaptation, gender, and subsistence EN
2017
- Nina Holmelin, 2017 Thank you for the rain. Landbruk og matsikkerhet under klimaendringer NO
- Nina Holmelin, 2017 Landbruk i klimaendringenes tid NO
- Nina Holmelin, 2017 Klima, matproduksjon og tilpasningskapasitet NO
- Nina Holmelin, 2017 Klima, landbruk og tilpasning NO
2016
- Nina Holmelin, 2016 From resilience to flexibility: Adaptive capacity in a Nepali farming system EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2016 Flexible adaptations in Himalaya: Place-based case studies EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2016 Flukt og klima NO
2015
- Nina Holmelin, 2015 Minor crops and major opportunities in Dolakha, Nepal. EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2015 Maina Pokhari: Minor crops and major opportunities in Dolakha, Nepal EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2015 Kveldsmat: Smaken av klima NO
- Nina Holmelin, 2015 Matsikkerhet for et klima i endring NB
- Nina Holmelin, 2015 Tilpasninger til klimaendringer i landbruket. NO
- Nina Holmelin, 2015 Explore Himalaya. Folket i fjellene NO
- Nina Holmelin, 2015 Matsikkerhet og klimaendringer NO
2014
- Nina Holmelin, 2014 Tilpasning til klimaendringer i jordbruket. NO
- Nina Holmelin, 2014 Små avlinger, store muligheter. Jordbruk og klimaendringer i Himalaya NO
- Nina Holmelin, 2014 Policies to enable farming flexibility EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2014 HICAP Place-based workshop. Case: Dolakha, Nepal EN
2013
- Nina Holmelin, 2013 Researcher in the field: Fieldwork methods and Place based case studies EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2013 Små avlinger, store muligheter. Jordbruk og klimaendringer i Himialaya NO
- Nina Holmelin, 2013 Tilpasning til klimaendringer i landbruket NO
2012
- Nina Holmelin, 2012 Klimaendringer: Sårbarhet og tilpasning NO
- Petra Tschakert, Nina Holmelin, Armando Lamadrid, Bob van Oort, Asuncion St. Clair, 2012 Conceptual and Methodological Reflections on Vulnerability Assessments (VAs) EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2012 PhD project presentation EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2012 Adapting to uncertainty through Farming Flexibility in Himalaya EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2012 Capability to change in response to large-scale uncertainty: Farming flexibility, food security and climate change in Himalaya EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2012 Flexibility in a Himalayan farming system: Adaptation under uncertainty EN
- Nina Holmelin, 2012 Capability to change in response to large-scale uncertainty: Farming flexibility, food security and climate change in Himalaya EN
2011
- Nina Holmelin, 2011 Adapting to uncertainty: Farming Flexibility in Mustang, Nepal EN
Web articles
- Fleksible bønder i Himalaya Bønder i høyfjellet i Nepal har mulighet til å veksle raskt mellom forskjellige typer avlinger og inntektskilder. Denne fleksibiliteten gjør dem bedre i stand til å tilpasse seg varierende klimaforhold og gjør dem mindre sårbare for klimaendringer.
- Folk i Himalaya trenger isbreene Smelting av breer som ligger under 6000 meters høyde skaper problemer for bønder i Himalaya.
- Population growth is moving in a climate-friendly direction Higher living standards have led to a slow-down in global population growth. This is good news for the climate because it will lead to lower growth in carbon emissions, say scientists at CICERO Center for International Climate Research.
- The Himalayan Climate and Water Atlas Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources in Five of Asia’s Major River Basins
- Climate-FOOD The project Kli-MAT will identify how Norwegian farmers, retailers and consumers can improve the climate footprint of the food system.