Niels Fold
Professional Address: Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Tel: +45 35322500, Fax: +45 35322501
E-mail: nf@geogr.ku.dk
Occupation: Associate Professor at the Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen (IGUC)
University degrees: 1984 MSc: geography, University of Copenhagen; 1993 PhD: geography, IGUC
Employment record:
1989-1992 Research fellow, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen,
1993-1997 Assistant professor, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen,
1996 Visiting scholar, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA
1997- Associate professor, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen
Recent, selected scientific projects and activities:
1994-1996: State Regulation, Social Institutions and Entrepreneurial Initiative - Key Factors in Development Dynamics of Industrializing Countries (research project). Danish Council for Development Research
1996-1997: Regulation of Agro-Industrial Activities in the Developing Countries (research project). Danish Social Science Research Council
1999-2002: Globalisation and Economic Restructuring in Africa (research program). Danish Social Science Research Council
2002: Medical Patents: Ethical and Economic perspectives for Developing Countries’ (conference). North-South Coordination Committee, University of Copenhagen
2003: Northern consumption - Southern production: Analysing cross-continental food commodity chains’ (conference). Danish Social Science Research Council
2005-2007: Rural-Urban Dynamics in a Globalizing World: Changing Livelihoods and Settlement Patterns in Frontier Regions of Africa and Asia (research programme). Danish Council for Development Research
2006-2007: Restructuring of Agro-commodity Flows in Pacific Asia: New Patterns and Impacts (research project). Danish Social Science Research Council
Current research areas:
· Globalisation of agro-industries and local livelihood changes
· Commodity chain dynamics and
Current teaching areas:
· International trade and investments (international division of labour)
· Global Value Chain analysis
· Industrial restructuring in developing countries
Popularization of research
· Contributor to several textbooks (highschool) on geography
· Public lectures and courses for high school students and teachers
Selected, reviewed publications since 1998
Fold, N. & M.N. Larsen (forthcoming) (eds.) Global Commodity Chains and Economic Restructuring in Africa. James Currey; Oxford.
Fold, N. & Hansen, T.S. (forthcoming) Oil palm expansion in Sarawak: lessons learned by a late-comer? In Connell, J. & E. Waddell (eds.) The Local and the Global: Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific. Routledge; London.
Fold, N. & Pritchard, B. (eds.) (2005) Cross-continental Food Chains. Routledge; London, pp. 1-260.
Fold, N. (2004) Spilling the beans on a tough nut: liberalisation and local supply system changes in Ghana’s cocoa and shea chains. In Hughes, A. & Reimer, S. (eds.) Geographies of Commodity Chains. Routledge; London, pp. 63-80.
Fold, N. (2002) Lead firms and competition in ‘bi-polar’ commodity chains: grinders and branders in the global cocoa-chocolate industry. Journal of Agrarian Change, 2(2), pp. 228-247.
Fold, N. (2001) Restructuring of the European chocolate industry and its impact on cocoa production in West Africa. Journal of Economic Geography, 1(3), pp. 405-420.
Fold, N. (2000) A Matter of Good Taste? Quality and the Construction of Standards for Chocolate Products in the EU. Cahiers d’economie et sociologie rurales, 55-56, pp.92-110.
Fold, N. (2000) State regulation, industrial upgrading and globalization of the oil seed industries in Malaysia and Brazil. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21(3), pp. 263-278.
Fold, N. (2000) Oiling the palms: Restructuring of settlement schemes in Malaysia and the new international trade regulations. World Development, 28(3), pp. 473-486.
Fold, N. & A. Reenberg (1999) In the shadow of the ‘Chocolate War’: local marketing of shea nut products around Tenkodogo, Burkina Faso. Danish Journal of Geography, Special Issue 2, pp. 113-123.
Fold, N. (1998) State regulation of agro-industries in developing countries. Governance systems in the vegetable oil industry of Malaysia and Zimbabwe. Geoforum, 29(4), (pp. 393-412)
Fold, N. & A.Wangel (1998) Penang, Malaysia: Sustained growth but non-sustainable urbanization. Third World Planning Review 20(2), pp. 165-177.
Dragsbaek Schmidt, J., N. Fold and J. Hersh (eds.) (1998) Social change in Southeast Asia. Addison Wesley Longman; Harlow, pp. 1-239.
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