Farming for the future

Editor in Chief
Ambassador Jarl Frijs-Madsen
Under-Secretary for Foreign Trade & Investment

Can you imagine a world where there is plenty of food for everyone? Where food is healthy and to a large extent organic? Where agriculture is seen as part of the solution to climate change – not as part of the problem? A world where robots running on renewable energy handle the strenuous work of weeding or fruit-picking? In Denmark we can. We are working hard on creating the agricultural solutions of tomorrow.

In this issue of Focus Denmark you can read about one of the world’s largest agricultural research centres, located in Foulum in Denmark, where progress is being made every day in solving the big challenges in agriculture. Research includes the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and optimising the use of biomass as a renewable energy resource.

At the University of Southern Denmark and at the research centre RoboCluster, progress is being made in creating robots for agricultural purposes.

Furthermore, a lot of the research at Foulum, RoboCluster and the University of Southern Denmark concentrates on further development and optimisation of organic farming, a fertile area of activity in Denmark for many years. So perhaps it’s no surprise that Denmark was named ’Organic Country of the Year 2009’ at BioFach in Germany in February this year.

Focus Denmark magazine is also developing: you can now find links to video clips on Denmark’s national portal denmark.dk after some articles, and the magazine has gained a brand new design.

Enjoy the read.