Dr. Michele Nori is a Tropical Agronomist (University of Florence, Italy) with a further specialisation in Rural Sociology (PhD at Wageningen University, The Netherlands) and a specific expertise on resource management and livelihood systems of agro-pastoral communities.
By integrating field practice, academic research and policy advice, he has developed a “horizontal career”, based on more than twenty-five years of collaborations in different world regions with various organizations including civil society, UN agencies, research institutes, agricultural enterprises and development institutions, including the European Union. His publications range from scientific articles to technical notes and advocacy papers on agro-pastoral livelihoods. His current concern is to provide effective scientific evidence and policy advice on aspects of rural development, food security, natural resource management and rural mobilities through sound analysis of field realities and practices on the ground. Such endeavour is undertaken through the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute that hinges on broad interdisciplinary themes and on the many cross-cutting issues related to globalisation.
His engagement at EUI is through the ERC-funded PASTRES project whose objective is learning from pastoral systems to tackle societal challenges related to growing degrees of uncertainty. This entails the systematic use of sophisticated resource management and livelihood configurations underpinned by an in-depth local knowledge as well as through complex mobility patterns supported by a reticular territorial organization and high reliable social networks.
Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Firenze. Email: Michele.Nori@alumniprofs.eui.eu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3543-6130
Redressing Policy Making in Pastoral Areas of the Mediterranean Region
