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Esbern Friis Hansen
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Esbern Friis Hansen

Esbern Friis-Hansen

Senior Researcher
Sustainable development and governance
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Investment rush for natural land and forest resources; Climate change adaptation and rural institutions; Farmer organizations; Agricultural research and extension reform; Local governance of service provision; Social accountability and participation; and Transformative Learning. Africa and Asia. Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ghana.

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Research and activites

  • shepherds walking in Africa
    Photo/illustration by Mikkel Funder
    Webinar

    Governing climate change adaptation: Lessons from the ground

    Online via Zoom
    How should climate change adaptation be governed? This webinar examines how climate change adaptation policies and projects govern mobility, land rights and finance in the African context, and what the lessons are for adaptation governance.
  • Solar cells in Niger
    Photo/illustration by Joerg Boethling / Alamy Stock Photo
    Livestreaming

    How can finance for climate change adaptation be spent more effectively?

    DIIS Auditorium
    The seminar analyses the institutional architecture of how and where finance for climate change adaptation is spent and which route of transfer it follows from national to local levels
  • Book covers, double book launch seminar
    Livestreaming

    Prosperity, conservation and development in rural Tanzania

    DIIS Auditorium
    Join us for the launch of two new unique research based books on Tanzania
  • report from DIIS with man sailing in a boat in Africa
    Photo/illustration by Eddie Gerald, Alamy Stock Photo (background photo)
    Webinar

    Report launch: Devolved finance and governance of climate change adaptation

    Online via Zoom
    At this webinar, we launch a new DIIS report that examines issues of devolved adaptation governance in depth. Hear authors present highlights from the report as well as national and international perspectives from experts working with devolved adaptation finance
  • Webinar

    Integration of climate change and development

    Online via Zoom
    Webinar to mark new DIIS Report ‘Integrating climate change adaptation and development’
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    CCRI - Climate Change and Rural Institutions

    "Climate Change and Rural Institutions" was a four-year multi-partner research programme, coordinated by DIIS in collaboration with partners in Nepal, Vietnam, Uganda and Zambia. The programme...

  • Governing Adaptation Finance for Transformation, GAP

    Governing Adaptation Finance for Transformation (GAP)

    GAP is a research programme analysing the institutional architecture of how and where finance for climate change adaptation is spent and which route of transfer it follows from national to local...

  • Timber Rush – Private forestry on village land. Photo by Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

    Timber Rush – Private forestry on village land

    Timber Rush investigates the scale and drivers of the current investments in land and timber in Tanzania, testing the hypothesis that investments are first and foremost driven by domestic factors...