This article aims to predict the size of maize crops in West, East and Central Africa, and to emphasize the importance of including climate factors in such models. The findings show that climate variables can explain 28 percent of the variance in maize crops in these areas. Crop yields are projected to decline by 20 percent in a scenario with higher greenhouse gas emissions.

This article investigates how trade unions influence the process of technological change at the workplace level. The authors show how labor unions contribute to raising the relative wage of occupational groups with high and low probabilities of being replaced by automation. This wage compressing effect is in turn shown to accelerates technological change. However, unions also influence technological change directly, conditional on relative wages.

Small fish are an important part of the diet in Ghana. Although small fish are basically nutritious food, malnutrition is a problem in the country. Fafo's Anne Hatløy contributes to a research project that looks more closely at this dietary issue, presenting findings in two articles.

This report offer an overview on school dropout and high absences in Norway, primarily regarding pupils in primary and lower secondary school. The focus is on the rules and measures that have been put in place to increase attendance and ensure that pupils attend and complete their schooling. The publication serves as background information for the joint Norwegian-Romanian project “Inclusive Education for Children and Young People at Risk” (NOROC).

A few days after Nigeria’s presidential elections, with a disputed winner declared, Camilla Houeland offered some initial conclusions and prospects.

The 6th most populated country in the world is preparing its president election. An outsider candidate, Peter Obi, is the surprise favorite in this week’s Nigerian presidential election. Obi has attracted support from labor and youth activists, but his neoliberal economic agenda won’t address the dire social conditions afflicting Nigeria, Camilla Houleland and Sa’eed Husaini write in this article.

Norway allocated a total of NOK 60 billion to the EEA and Norway Grants from 2004 to 2021. The grants seek to reduce economic and social disparities in the EEA and to strengthen bilateral relations between donor and recipient countries. In addition to good results in the beneficiary countries – such as support for civil society and as a counter-move against authoritarian forces – the grants show positive effects for Norway, according to the review. The report was commissioned by Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This book focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within contexts of violence. It provides a forum for field-based researchers to tell their stories. The volume engages with the methodological and ethical issues involved and features a range of expressive writings that reveal personal consequences and dilemmas.