Visiting research stay at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC., USA.

This research visit at the International Food Policy Research (IFPRI) is an integral part of my phd. project. Prior to the visit I will have conducted and finished my fieldwork and data collecting activities related to multilateral organizations within th e agricultural sector. (For more details about the phd. project, see the attached project description). I will thus enter IFPRI with a comprehensive data set. The planned stay at IFPRI will be utilized to process the data set, and to turn them into arti cles. The goal is to publish them in renowned journals within the research field. In this regard the stay at IFPRI will be highly instrumental, as the organization represents a research institute at the research front. The scientific knowledge environment at IFPRI creates the best conditions for producing high quality research within my topic. For IFPRI the benefit of my visit will be added knowledge about other multilateral organizations in the field, as well as about the role of different forms/types of knowledge related to governance in a process of globalization. Also, the IFPRI is part of a worldwide network of research institutions within agriculture. Situated at IFPRI, this give me the access to this extensive network of different actors in the se ctor, and the opportunity to disseminate my research results to a variety of target groups within and/or relevant to agriculture. The stay will create new links between this global research institution and research organizations in Norway, in particular the University of Bergen and the Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI). This makes further collaborations a likely outcome. As such, the project will continue to have added value after the visit.