CMI Staff
Dr Ragnhild Overå
Thematic research group:
Poverty Reduction
Keywords:
African fisheries, gender relations, market trade resources, small-scale entrepreneurship, natural resource management.
Geographic keywords:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa: Ghana, Zambia.
Affiliated researcher
E-mail: ragnhild.overaa@cmi.no
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Human geographer with extensive experience in research and teaching. Specialisation in African fisheries, gender, market trade, small-scale entrepreneurship and resource management. The research has focused on the interconnectedness of social and economic relations in the strategies of entrepreneurs in processes of technological and economic change in small-scale fisheries. In particular the role of women and of credit and fish marketing systems have been analysed in order to understand the dynamics of fisheries development in Africa. Socio-economic processes in local communities are viewed in context of processes on other geographical levels; from household level to the regional, national and global.
Overå is professor at the University of Bergen, Institute of Geography.
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Current and recently completed projects:
Well-being among Fisherfolks in Africa Research (WELFARE)
Start: Jan. 2005 (Completed)
Keywords: Small scale fisheries, poverty analysis, social change
Geography: Southern Africa; West Africa
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Publications by category:
Books and Anthologies
Management, co-management or no management? Major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries. Vol. 1: Synthesis report Vol.2: Case studies
Jul-Larsen, Eyolf, Jeppe Kolding, Ragnhild Overå, Jesper Raakjær Nielsen, Paul van Zwieten (2003)
Rome: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO fisheries technical paper no. 426/1-2 (2 vols.))
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Mobile Traders and Mobile Phones in Ghana
Overå, Ragnhild (2008)
in James Katz (Ed.): Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press
Networks, Distance and Trust: Telecommunications Development and changing Trading Practices in Ghana
Overå, Ragnhild (2006)
in World Development vol. 34 no. 7 July pp. 1301-1315
When Sisters become Competitors : Coastal Women's Innovative Utilization of Trawler-by-catch in Ghana
Overå, Ragnhild (2005)
in Barbara Neis, Marian Binkley, Siri Gerrard and Maria Cristina Maneschy, eds.: Changing Tides: Gender, Fisheries and Globalization. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing pp. 136-151
Market development and investment "bottlenecks" in the fisheries of Lake Kariba, Zambia.
Overå, Ragnhild (2003)
in Jul-Larsen, E., J. Kolding, R. Overå, J. Raakjær Nielsen and P. A. M. van Zwieten: Management, co-management or no-management? Major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries. Case studies . Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization United Nations pp. 202-233
Small-scale fisheries, population dynamics and resource use in Africa: The case of Moree, Ghana
Marquette, Catherine M. and Ragnhild Overå (2002)
in Ambio vol. 31 no. 4 pp. 324-336
Trends and causes in the development of fishing effort in SADC freshwater fisheries: Implications for management
Jul-Larsen, Eyolf and Ragnhild Overå (2001)
in Ann Therese Lotherington (ed.): Fisheries research in developing countries: Proceedings from the third programme conference, held in Bergen, Norway January/February 2001. Oslo: Research Council of Norway pp. 56-76
Rom for manøver? Kjønnsideologi og entreprenørskap I Ghana
Overå, Ragnhild (2000)
in Inger J. Birkeland and Bjørg Lien Hanssen (eds.): Menneskers rom. Oslo: Unipub pp. 67-95
Les femmes, chefs d'enterprise dans la pêche piroguières au Ghana: Le cas de la ville fante de Moree
Overå, Ragnhild (2000)
in Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Eyolf Jul-Larsen and Christian Chaboud (eds.): Les pêches piroguières en Afrique de l'Ouest: Dynamiques institutionnelles: Pouvoirs, mobilités, marchés. Paris: Karthala pp. 299-324
Wives and Traders: Women's Careers in Ghanaian Canoe Fisheries
Overå, Ragnhild (1993)
in Maritime Anthropological Studies (MAST) vol. 6 pp. 110-135
Reports
Opplæring i produksjon og bruk av not i Ghana
Overå, Ragnhild og Eyolf Jul-Larsen (2004)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute 8 p. (Vurdering av prosjektsøknad v/Nordsjønot AS til NORAD)
Rural development in the coastal areas of Trieu Phong District, Quang Tri Province: Mid-term review May 2003
Jerve, Alf Morten, Ragnhild Overå et al. (2003)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Commissioned by the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Hanoi) 60 p. (Project supported by NORAD)
CMI Working Papers
'Money has no Name': Informalisation, Unemployment and changing Gender Relations in Accra, Ghana
Overå, Ragnhild (2005)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper) 19 p.
Networks, distance and trust: Telecommunications and changing trading practices in Ghana
Overå, Ragnhild (2004)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2004: 15)
Institutions, mobility and resilience in the Fante migratory fisheries of West Africa
Overå, Ragnhild (2001)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2001:2)
Other External Publications
Book review: The creation of African urban livelihoods in-between the formal and informal city
Overå, Ragnhild (2004)
in Forum for Development Studies vol. 31 no. 2 pp. 423-430
