Eva Øvren
Senior Adviser
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Division of Survey and Statistics
(+47) 902 89 619 eva.ovren@nibio.no Office Location: Oslo
NIBIO Oslo is located in the centre of the city, close by Nationaltheatret, at a short distance to the railway station "Nationaltheatret", government offices (Regjeringskvartalet) and the parliament building (Stortinget).
9 employees work at NIBIO Oslo, and about the same number of employees have their office location here some parts of the year.
The staff are attached to the department Economics and Society in the Division of Food Production and Society, as well as to the departments Farm Economics and Agricultural Economics in the Division of Survey and Statistics.
NIBIO acts as secretariat for the Agricultural budget tribunal (Budsjettnemnda for jordbruket) who prepare the basis for the annual agricultural negotiations between farmer groups and government.
The employees in Oslo possess specialist competence within several areas including business/company finance, agricultural economics, social economics, resource economics and sociology. They are competent with regard to quantitative and qualitative methodology such as questionnaires, in-depth interviewing and focus groups.
Further skills include business systems and entrepreneurship in agriculture and the analysis of institutions and management models/systems.
With regard to research and progress tasks as well as documentation, the employees take part in for instance:
Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Environmental Directorate, Agricultural Directorate, county authorities, county councils, municipalities, Innovation Norway, Statistics Norway, Nordic Council of Ministers, the EU-commission, Animalia, Norwegian Directorate of Health, Tine SA, Nortura SA, Norsk Landbrukssamvirke, Norsk landbruksrådgiving, NHO Mat og Drikke, Oikos, NMBU, UiS (IRIS), UiO, NTNU, SNF, Ruralis, Nofima, Veterinærinstituttet, NINA