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Thor Olav Iversen

PhD Candidate
Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities
  • E-mailThor.Iversen@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 29 83
  • Visitor Address
    Parkveien 9
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7805
    5020 BERGEN

The doctoral project seeks to develop a critical framework for assessing food security quantification. Food insecurity and hunger is still endemic in developing countries. According to the most used food security indicator, 800 million people remain undernourished globally, down 170 million from two decades ago. Such estimates however depend on the methodology used to quantify food security. Measurement methods also impact the form, targeting, scale and timing of an aid response.

Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) 2015. The added value of Value Added Tax: People are more willing to pay tax. CMI Brief. 4 pages.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Fields of competence 
Development
Food security
Quantitative analysis
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development Goals
Theory of Science
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