Go to search Go to content Go to top menu Go to left menu Go to contact information

Search the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Search all of government.no

Skip left menu navigation

Ministry home

This page is not available in English. Go to English front page.

You are here:

Mat

Målene for matpolitikken er trygg mat, kvalitet og forbrukerhensyn. Målet om trygg mat bygger på prinsippet om at det er næringsutøverne som har ansvaret for å sikre mattryggheten. Et sunt kosthold og en langsiktig matforsyning er i tillegg til nyskapning, mangfold og verdiskapning viktige innsatsområder i matpolitikken. Forbrukerne viser stor interesse for hvordan maten blir produsert, foredlet og omsatt. Forbrukernes meninger tillegges stor vekt i matpolitikken.

Melding til Stortinget 9 (2011-2012): Landbruks- og matpolitikken
- Velkommen til bords

Nyheter

Benefit Sharing Fund strengthened by almost NOK 700,000

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 13.03.2013]

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food, on behalf of Norway, recently contributed NOK 683,000 to a Benefit Sharing Fund that has been created under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). The fund has been created to stimulate the preservation and development of plant genetic resources among individual farmers, especially in developing countries.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault secures future seed

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 27.02.2013]

This year it is five years since the first boxes of seeds from food crops were carried into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Today, more than 770,000 different seed samples are deposited in the vault for long-term storage.

Åslaug Haga –new Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 19.10.2012]

Ms Åslaug Haga will be the successor of Cary Fowler as the new Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust.

Ola Westengen with the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre checks the seeds upon arrival at the seed vault

Seeds lining up for Svalbard...

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 10.10.2012]

More than 25,000 seed samples from 17 different countries will arrive in Svalbard this week. This latest seed shipment from Brazil, Burundi, Chile, Mali and Mongolia, among other countries, brings the total number of seed types in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to more than three quarters of a million.

The Norwegian Minister of Agriculture and Food, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum

Global problems - local solutions

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 16.08.2012]

The Norwegian Minister of Agriculture and Food, Trygve Slagsvold Vedum is this week visiting India. Today he gave a Special Adress at Clima-Adapt Inauguration, in Chennai.

A new shipment of seeds from food plants has arrived at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

New shipment of seeds to Svalbard

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 03.05.2012]

A new shipment of seeds from food plants has arrived at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for long-term storage.

New seeds to the seed vault in Svalbard

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 28.02.2012]

This week, a new shipment of seeds from food plants is arriving at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for long-term storage. The shipment, now being taken into the seed vault in Longyearbyen, includes seed samples from Tajikistan, Armenia, Colombia, Costa Rica and the U.S.A.

Food, the powerful and the powerless

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 13.04.2011]

The Food Chain Committee's power analysis, “Food, power and impotence – on the relative strengths in the food value chain,” shows that over time, the major food retail chains have increased their power relative to the other links in the value chain.

Minister of Agriculture and Food Lars Peder Brekk

GM food - securing the world food supply?

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 22.11.2010]

- I do not believe at the time being, that genetically modified (GM) foods will be needed to secure the food supply. With the urgent need to solve the emerging food crisis, we should focus on the methods that we know are working, and that we know are safe, says minister of Agriculture and Food Lars Peder Brekk.

Play the game Farmland and learn about animal welfare!

Animal: Play the interactive computer game Farmland and learn about animal welfare!

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 11.11.2008]

Animal: In an effort to raise awareness among children about the impostance of treating farmed animals in a respectful and humane way, the European Commission has launched "Farmland", a website for children on animal welfare. "Farmland" is an interactive and informative online computer game targeting children aged between 9 and 12, which also aims to help tomorrow's consumers be in a position to make informed choises about the food they will be buying.

Norway contributes to plant breeding in developing countries

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 25.02.2008]

From 2009 Norway is going to give an annual contribution to the International Treaty’s benefit-sharing fund for financing plant breeding in developing countries and challenge other OECD-members to contribute likewise. If all the challenged countries accept, the fund can get some 200 million dollars during a ten year period.

European Commissioner Markos Kyprianou. Photo: Astraea Antal, Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Norwegian food safety impressed European Commissioner

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 05.06.2007]

European Commissioner Markos Kyprianou is impressed at the level of food safety in Norway. On Monday he got to study the system at sea. Today the focus is on agricultural food production.

Nordic and Baltic ministers convene in Norway

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 31.10.2006]

Ten ministers from 9 Nordic and Baltic countries have confirmed their participation to the Ministerial meeting to be held November 7-8 2006 at Thorbjørnrud Hotel at Jevnaker, Norway to provide further progress of the co-operation in the Nordic-Baltic Region.

Nordic-Baltic assembly of Ministers

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 10.07.2006]

The Norwegian Chair to the Council of Ministers for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Agriculture, Food and Forestry (MR-FJLS) has invited the Nordic and Baltic Ministers responsible for agriculture, forestry, food related issues and fisheries to a meeting in Norway in November.

Seeds of the world to be conserved on Svalbard

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 30.05.2006]

The Norwegian Government is going to build a global vault for seeds on Svalbard. Seeds from the entire world will be put into frozen storage in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future.

Arctic seed depository for world food security

[Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 13.01.2006]

The Norwegian Government is currently working on plans to establish a global safety depository in Svalbard. The seed depository will be the only one of its kind in the world. The objective is to protect valuable food resources against plant diseases and the effects of climate change, wars and natural disasters.