Extensive fieldwork is a core component of our research in the Sahel and in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our researchers combine qualitative and quantitative methods to produce high-quality research of direct policy relevance to both Norwegian and international stakeholders.
Fafo's current research in Africa focuses on:
Fafo receives funding for our Africa projects from a range of institutions, including the Norwegian Research Council, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank, the US Institute of Peace, and the Norwegian Development Agency (NORAD).
Camilla Houeland
The social contract and industrial citizenship: Nigerian trade unions’ role in the recurring fuel subsidy protests Africa , 2022Camilla Houeland
Labour Resistance Against Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform: Neoliberal Discourses and African Realities The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies , 2021Camilla Houeland
Contentious and institutional politics in a petro-state: Nigeria's 2012 fuel subsidy protests The Extractive Industries and Society , 2020Mapatano Mala Ali, Christiane Horwood & Anne Hatløy
Building a new master’s and PhD programme in nutritional epidemiology in KinshasaCamilla Houeland
Between the street and Aso Rock: the role of Nigerian trade unions in popular protests Journal of Contemporary African Studies , 2018Kismul H, Hatløy, Andersen P, Mapatano M, Van den Broeck J and Molland KM (2015).
The social context of severe child malnutrition: a qualitative household case study from a rural area of the Democratic Republic of Congo International Journal for Equity in Health , 2015Bekele Shiferaw, Tewodros Aragie Kebede, Menale Kassie and Monica Fisher
Market imperfections, access to information and technology adoption in Uganda: challenges of overcoming multiple constraints Agricultural Economics , 2015Camilla Houeland
Casualisation and Conflict in the Niger Delta: Nigerian Oil Workers' Unions Between Companies and Communities Revue Tiers Monde , 2015Kathleen M. Jennings
Life in a ‘Peace-kept’ City: Encounters with the Peacekeeping Economy Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding , 2015Kathleen M. Jennings
Service, sex, and security: Gendered peacekeeping economies in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Security Dialogue , 2014Tone Sommerfelt
From cutting to fading: A relational perspective on marriage exchange and sociality in rural Gambia Social Analysis , 2013Kathleen M. Jennings
Unintended Consequences of Intimacy: Political Economies of Peacekeeping and Sex Tourism International Peacekeeping , 2010Bjørkhaug I and Anne Hatløy A
Utilisation of Respondent Driven Sampling among a population of child workers in the diamond mining sector of Sierra Leone Global Public Health , 2009Kathleen M. Jennings
The political economy of DDR in Liberia: a gendered critique Conflict, Security and Development , 2009Anne Kielland
Child mobility in West Africa: strategy, poverty or crime? , 2009Anne Kielland
Barnearbeidsmigrasjoner i ulike landskapBekele A. Shiferaw, Tewodros Aragie Kebede and Liang You
Technology adoption under seed access constraints and the economic impacts of improved pigeon pea varieties in Tanzania Agricultural Economics , 2008Bøås M and Hatløy A
Alcohol and drugs in post-war Sierra Leone Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies , 2008Bøås M and Hatløy A
Child labour in West Africa: Different children – Different work – Different vulnerabilities International Migration , 2008Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
‘Getting in, getting out’: militia membership and prospects for re-integration in post-war Liberia Journal of Modern African Studies , 2008Morten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
‘Failed States’ and ‘State Failure’: Threats or Opportunities? Globalizations , 2007Kathleen M. Jennings
The Struggle to Satisfy: DDR Through the Eyes of Ex-Combatants in Liberia International Peacekeeping , 2007Pedersen, Jon & Tone Sommerfelt
Studying children in armed conflict: Data production, social indicators and analysis Social Indicators Research , 2007Hallund J, Hatløy A, Benesi I and Thilsted SH
Snacks are important for fat and vitamin intakes among rural African women: a cross-sectional study from Malawi European Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 2007Bøås M and Hatløy A
Poor, terrorised and internally displaced: the humanitarian situation in Northern Uganda Humanitarian Exchange , 2006Guy Blaise Nkamleu and Anne Kielland
Modeling farmers' decisions on child labor and schooling in the cocoa - sectorTorheim LE, Ouattara F, Diarra MM, Thiam FD, Barikmo I, Hatløy A and Oshaug A
Nutrition adequacy and dietary diversity in rural Mali: association and determinants European Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 2004Torheim LE, Barikmo I, Parr C, Hatløy A, Ouatara F, Oshaug A
Validation of food variety as an indicator of diet quality assessed with a food frequency questionnaire for Western Mali European Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 2003Torheim LE, Barikmo I, Hatløy A, Ouattara F, Diarra M and Oshaug A
Validation of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire in Western Mali , 2001Hatløy A, Hallund J, Diarra MM and Oshaug A
Food variety scores, socio-economic status and nutritional status in urban and rural areas in Koutiala (Mali) Public Health Nutrition , 2000Hatløy A, Torheim LE and Oshaug A
Food variety – a good indicator of nutritional adequacy? A case study from an urban area in Mali, West Africa European Journal of Clinical Nutrition , 1998Nordeide MB, Hatløy A, Følling M, Lie E and Oshaug A
Nutrient composition and nutritional importance of green leaves and wild food resources in an agricultural district, Koutiala, in Southern Mali International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition , 1996Oshaug A,Pedersen J, Diarra M, Ag Bendech M, Hatløy A
Problems and pitfalls in the use of estimated age in anthropometric measurements of children from 6 to 60 months of age: A case from Mali Journal of Nutrition , 1994Victor Adetula
En global utfordring Dagens Næringsliv , 2017Victor Adetula
The crisis around Lake Chad Africa is a Country , 2017Tone Sommerfelt
Det som skjer i Afrika nå har stor symbolverdi Dagbladet , 2017Tone Sommerfelt
Yahya Jammeh's tribalism Africa is a Country , 2016Tone Sommerfelt
Valget i Gambia: Da Afrikas minste land overrasket en hel verden Afrika.no , 2016Tone Sommerfelt, Anne Hatløy and Kristin Jesnes
Wahhabiyya paranoia in Bamako and the new intolerance of the tolerant The Broker , 2015Tone Sommerfelt & Kristin Jesnes
State control of religious activity in southern Mali following the 2012 crisis Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre , 2015Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Kathleen M. Jennings and Morten Bøås
Mapping and assessment of national, bilateral and multilateral actors support to work against sexual based violence in the Great Lakes region in AfricaKathleen M. Jennings
UN peacekeeping economies and local sex industries: connections and implications , 2009Hatløy A, Kebede T, Aiello H and Langer S
Verification of Certification Activities in West African Cocoa Sector Final Verification Report: Côte d’Ivoire , 2008Hatløy A, Kebede T, Aiello H and Langer S
Verification of Certification Activities in West African Cocoa Sector Final Verification Report: Ghana , 2008Bjørkhaug I, Bøås M, Hatløy A and Jennings K
Returning to Uncertainty? Addressing Vulnerabilities in Northern Uganda , 2007Bøås M and Hatløy A
Northern Uganda IDP Profiling. Volume 1: Northern Uganda IDP Study , 2005Atallah A, Bøås M, El Dada H, Hatløy A, Zhang H
Northern Uganda IDP Profiling. Volume 2: Tabulation report , 2005Mossige A, Hatløy A, Luyinduladio N, Makengo AM, Mboso SK, Mpiana B and Nyonka N
Etude Pilote de Risques et de la Vulnérabilité en République Démocratique du Congo , 2004Anne Kielland and Ibrahima Sanogo
Burkina Faso: Child labor migration from rural areasGironde, C., P. Sletten
L’Utilisation des Enfants dans les Conflits armés en Afrique Centrale: Manuel pour l’Évaluation Rapide , 2002Tone Fløtten
Dilemmas to be faced in delivery of infrastructure , 2000Kathleen M. Jennings
United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) , 2015 Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping OperationsKathleen M. Jennings
United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) , 2015 Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping OperationsAnne Kielland
The Exploitation Equation: Distinguishing child trafficking from other types of child mobility in West AfricaMorten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
Rebellion and warlordism: the spectre of neopatrimonialism , 2012 Neopatrimonialism in Africa and BeyondMorten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings
War in the Great Lakes Region and Ugandan Conflict Zones: Micro-regionalisms and Meta-narratives , 2008 Afro-Regions: The Dynamics of Cross-border Micro-regionalisms in AfricaKathleen M. Jennings
Securitizing the Economy of Reintegration in Liberia , 2008 Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding