About the project
Short name: PANDEMEAT
Duration: 2021-2025
This project seeks to investigate how recurrent outbreaks of avian flu affect the poultry industry in Norway and Denmark. We are interested in better understanding the challenges that the industry is facing as highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses are found more frequently among wild birds in Europe. The project will investigate how avian flu outbreaks disrupt different parts of the value chain from production to distribution and particularly how it affects logistics and planning.
Objective
The main objective of this project is to explore the challenges that recurrent outbreaks of avian flu pose to the poultry industry in Europe.
Background
Time frame: 4 years, from October 2021 through October 2025
Participating departments: Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM); University of Oslo; Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Theoretical basis / home fields: Social Geography, Social Anthropology, Political Ecology, Agrarian Studies
Methods: Mixed methods, including primary method of multisited fieldwork in Norway and Denmark, iteratively mapping “chains, paths, threads, conjunctions” along the routes of poultry meat commodities and infrastructures within and between sites.
Financing
12,000,000 NOK, funded by the program "Groundbreaking Research" of the Research Council of Norway.