Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)

Section for Global Development

About the section

The group engages in inter-disciplinary research on economic, political, environmental, and institutional dynamics in developing countries.

Research areas include issues of livelihoods, small-scale industry, trade, and labour; of climate change mitigation and adaptation; of forest and natural resource management; of resource conflicts and land grabbing; and of governance, state formation, and corruption.

Currently, research takes place in Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal.

Professor Christian Lund is head of the section for Global Development.

Professor Christian Lund

clund@ifro.ku.dk

Elsebeth Vidø

elsebeth@ifro.ku.dk

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Rhino horn consumers reveal why a legal trade alone won’t save rhinos

New study on rhino horn by Vu Hoai Nam Dang, PhD Fellow, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen, Associate Professor, and Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Professor at Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen.

Endangered species

Tigers end their days in high-pressure cookers

Thousands of tigers, bred on farms like pigs and raised in basements, end up in high-pressure cookers, where their bones are dissolved and transformed into traditional medicine. University of Copenhagen researchers are among the first to interview the buyers of pressure-cooked tiger bones, known as 'tiger bone glue', which in parts of Asia, is perceived as a remedy for a variety of ailments.

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Section for Global Development

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Rhino horn consumers reveal why a legal trade alone won’t save rhinos

Tigers end their days in high-pressure cookers

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