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.

Norway has limited land area for cultivating food and feed but is a country rich in natural resources, such as forests, seaweed, grass, and by-products from fish, animals and plants. This is an excellent starting point for the production of local and sustainable novel feed ingredients.

Foods of Norway develops new technology and innovative methods to create novel feeds from land-based and marine resources as well as to improve the feed efficiency of fish and farm animals.

To increase value creation in the Norwegian aquaculture, meat and dairy industries Foods of Norway will target three key research areas: Biomass, feed efficiency and new feed resources.