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Ana Cruz, industrial Ph.D in FOods of Norway.

Joining forces to increase food security

With one foot in industry and the other in academia, PhD student Ana Cruz is taking our insights into yeast as an animal feedstuff one step forward.

Demo plant at Borregaard.

Woody feed one step closer to the market

This autumn, the development of novel, Norwegian feed ingredients has been brought one step closer to commercialization. – We now need to move from academia to industry, says professor Vincent Eijsink in Foods of Norway.

If sheep and other ruminants can grow and stay healthy on a diet containing seaweed, feed supply could be less vulnerable in the future.

Sheep + seaweed = food security?

Farm animals eating seaweed might be the future, but will the meat taste any different? Foods of Norway is about to find out.

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The research story

Soy beans.

The challenge

Today, the Norwegian fish farming and farm animal industries rely largely on imported plant ingredients, such as soy. But Norway can no longer continue to depend so heavily on imports, as there have been dramatic changes in world feed resources in recent years, with decreasing supply and higher prices.

Foods of Norway has a special focus on developing sustainable feed ingredients from renewable bioresources, such as birch, that are not suitable for direct human consumption.

The solution

Norway has limited land area for growing food and feed resources, but possesses large natural bioresources such as forests, grass, macroalgae, and co-products from fish, animals and plants that can provide a basis for the production of novel feed ingredients.

Steam explosion.

The technology

Foods of Norway will use new technology to create novel feeds from land-based and marine resources as well as improve the genetic robustness of fish and farm animals.

Future animal feeds should be based on sustainable feed sources that do not compete directly with human food, such as macroalgae (seaweeds), grass and trees.

Key research

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 product quality.

About us


 

  • Foods of Norway is a Centre for Research-based Innovation (CRI) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, funded by The Research Council of Norway and the Centre`s industry partners.

  • The centre aims to contribute to growth and increased value creation in the Norwegian aquaculture and agriculture industries, by developing sustainable feed ingredients from natural bioresources that are not suitable for direct human consumption.

  • New feed products will be developed from forestry, agriculture, and marine resources through industrial exploitation of cutting-edge research on processing and (bio)technology.

  • Foods of Norway also aims to improve feed efficiency by advanced genomic analysis to support genetic adaptation and identification of new selection criteria for fish and farm animals.

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E-mail: fon@nmbu.no

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  • Faculty of Biosciences
    Arboretveien 6
    Campus Ås

  • Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science
    Christian Magnus Falsens vei 1
    Campus Ås
  • Veterinary Medicine
    Ullevålsveien 72
    Campus Adamstuen

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