Kjell Havnevik

Research Projects

Large scale agro investments in Tanzania – impacts on smallholder land access and food security

Lessons learned from ESIA implementation in Bagamoyo district, Tanzania with special reference to bioenergy

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.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Interview with Kjell Havnevik before ECAS 4

Land grabbing devastating for African farmers

“Large scale investments undermine the land rights of smallholders... These investments often have a tendency to undermine the long term sustainability of agriculture,” says NAI senior researcher Kjell Havnevik.