Education
University of London.
University of London.
Barth Eide holds a Master"s Degree (Candidate real) of Zoology (Zoo-physiology) at the University of Oslo 1962, and a Postgraduate Academic Diploma in Nutrition at the University of London (1965-1966). She became a University Fellow, at the Institute for Nutrition Research (1963-1966), then moved to the United States with her husbond and became a Consultant to the United Nations System (United Nations Protein-Calorie Advisory Group, PAG) to lead an African-Norwegian team to prepare a first ever report of the United Nations on Women in Food Production, Food Handling and Nutrition, on leave from UiO 18 months, 1975-1976. She was a Consultant, of the Norwegian Research Council (at the time Council for Research on Societal Planning, RFSP), and had a two months leve in 1981 to draft a programme for research in economic, social and cultural rights, as developed by an expert committee.
Then she became Technical Adviser in Nutrition, at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (International Fund for Agricultural Development) in Rome (1989-1994) on leave from UiO. Currently she is in an emeritus position (2013).
(1996-2003). She has been in the Member Board of Trustees of the International Foundation for Science (Institute for Fiscal Studies), since 2008. 2005: The Internationalisation Prize of the Oslo Student Parliament.
Barth Eide was leader of the Centre for International Development Studies (Southern Illinois University) at the University of Oslo (1981-1988), a member of Norad’s Research Committee and of Central Committee for Norwegian Research (Hovedkomiteen for Norsk Forskning), several years from around 1980. In the 1990s she became a member of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) (1995-1998), and a member of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington District of Columbia