Christine Hvitsand is a researcher, educated at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences with specialities in Business Administration and Environmental Economics. She also has a doctoral degree from the same university within Agroecology and studied how participatory and collaborative niche innovations in agri-food systems can be motivated, organized and contribute to sustainability transitions.

She has broad experience with projects within environment, sustainability and public health, and has also been a project leader of many projects. Most activity is related to sustainable agri-food systems and waste management, bio-economy and the circular economy, as well as perspectives of participation, co-creation, innovation and values. Her academic interests are linked to sustainability transitions, looking at challenges and possible solutions across various sectors and societal roles. 

See publications at NMBU:

Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability transitions : niche innovations in agri-food systems

Know the Farmer That Feeds You: A Cross-Country Analysis of Spatial-Relational Proximities and the Attractiveness of Community Supported Agriculture

Establishing an Agri-food living lab for sustainability transitions: Methodological insight from a case of strengthening the niche of organic vegetables in the Vestfold region in Norway