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  NordGen Farm Animals is a service and knowledge center working to conserve and promote a sustainable management of the diversity of animal genetic resources found in the Nordic region.
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  NordGen Forest is a meeting place that brings together researchers, breeders, managers and others who work within the forest sector with the aim to enable better cooperation and promote genetic diversity in the Nordic forests.
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  NordGen Plants is responsible for the Nordic seed collection and operates within several different projects aiming at securing the genetic diversity among our crops.
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  Each year, NordGen distributes more than 10 000 seed samples to researchers, plant breeders and other stakeholders. Hobby growers can also order seed samples.
- The Nordic Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for Pre-breeding
  NordGen is the secretariat for the Nordic PPP-collaboration where public and private stakeholders join forces to develop the Nordic agriculture.
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  Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the largest backup facility for the world's crop diversity. NordGen is responsible for the seed handling in the Seed Vault.
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  NordGen is an institution under the Nordic Council of Ministers, working as a gene bank and knowledge center to promote sustainable use and conservation of genetic resources within plants, farm animals and forestry. We are more than 30 highly qualified employees from all the Nordic countries. NordGen is organized under the Nordic Council of Ministers…
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  During the 1960s, the realization that biological and genetic diversity was diminishing spread. Since then, genebanks have been established, genetic resources mapped and international agreements signed to try to reverse the trend. But genetic resources do not follow the boundaries drawn on a map. Preserving genetic resources is an international effort, so NordGen often works…
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  Working at NordGen means working for future generations. As a NordGen employee, you share our vision of a society where a diversity of genetic resources leads to sustainable solutions. With us, garden engineers, scientists, economists, plant experts and many other professional groups work with the common goal of preserving and promoting sustainable use of genetic…
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  Welcome to NordGen’s press room with press releases, photos and videos from our work. We are happy to receive visits and interview requests from media representatives. The work carried out at NordGen is a matter for the entire Nordic population, as sustainable conservation and utilization of our genetic resources are a prerequisite for our future…
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  NordGen is to be a working place where both men, women and non-binary can thrive and progress professionally. Our belief is that a working place with gender balance will lead to a more creative and stimulating working environment. At NordGen, we find it important that both male and female perspectives are permeating the way we…
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  Main Office and NordGen Plants The Main office and NordGen Plants are located on the campus of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp. Alnarp is situated between Malmö and Lund in southern Sweden. Phone: +46 40 536 640 E-mail: info@nordgen.org Address: Växthusvägen 12, 234 56 Alnarp NordGen Farm Animals NordGen Farm Animals is…
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- Busy as a bee? Well, the Nordic brown bee surely is. The breed is calm, productive and active even at low temperatures. The endangered Nordic native breed is now on a rise and gaining in popularity. A peaceful buzzing sound comes from the hives containing thousands of brown bees – our native Nordic breed which…
- Busy as a bee? Well, the Nordic brown bee surely is. The breed is calm, productive and active even at low temperatures. The endangered Nordic native breed is now on a rise and gaining in popularity. A peaceful buzzing sound comes from the hives containing thousands of brown bees – our native Nordic breed which…

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Month: July 2018

2018.07.31 / Farm Animals

The Nordic brown bee is the new buzz in the honey business

Busy as a bee? Well, the Nordic brown bee surely is. The breed is calm, productive and active even at low temperatures. The endangered Nordic native breed is now on a rise and gaining in popularity. A peaceful buzzing sound...

2018.07.24 / Plants

Forgotten wheat variety is yummy for every bread lover’s tummy

Soft, savory and wonderful to bake with. Bread lovers are singing praise to Ölands-wheat – this forgotten, low-yield wheat variety that now is experiencing somewhat of a renaissance. It all started in 199 when the the plant breeder and researcher...

2018.07.17 / Plants

NordGen carrots helps us to eat more naturally produced food

A large part of the groceries we buy contain colorants. They make us find the food tastier. But many colorants are produced synthetically although the demand for natural ones is high. Chr. Hansen is a Danish company producing colorants. In...

2018.07.10 / Plants

Old varieties of NordGen barley flavour new kind of Carlsberg beer

It all started with a dark cellar being cleaned out in Carlsberg´s premises. There, in a dusty container, a treasure was found – a nearly 150-year-old beer with yeast cells still alive. NordGen delivered barley from the same year and...

2018.07.05 / Plants

NordGen lectures about the Seed Vault at two English festivals

Are you in England? Don’t miss out on NordGen’s Seed Vault Coordinator discussing seeds, the future and the importance of preserving plant genetic resources at two different festivals in England on the 6th and 7th of July. The FutureFest is...

2018.07.02 / Forest

Don’t forget to register for the thematic day of NordGen Forest!

Denmark is perhaps not the largest forest country in the world. But did you know that they are in the forefront when it comes to finding seed sources resistant to Ash dieback disease? Learn more about this and many other...