Description: Foods of Norway is a Centre for Research-based Innovation (CRI) linking academia and industry at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, funded by The Research Council of Norway and the centre's industry partners.The centre contributes to growth and increased value creation in Norwegian aquaculture, agriculture and forestry by developing novel feed ingredients from blue
Everything from sheep to salmon to chickens that eat seaweed can benefit.
Norwegian spruce can mitigate Brazilian deforestation. Farmed salmon will soon eat feed that comes from Norwegian forests instead of soybeans that have been transported halfway around the world.
Today, Norwegian fish farming and livestock industries rely largely on imported plant ingredients for feed, such as soy. Norway cannot continue to depend so heavily on imports, as climatic and economic changes in the world in recent years has led to increased cost and reduced supply of feed resources.