Historical archive

Historical archive

Published under: Stoltenberg's 2nd Government

In the Historical archive you will find information from previous governments such as press releases, news and speeches from previous government periods. You will also find outdated current affairs from the sitting government. In addition the archive contains documents where the content is no longer valid, such as expired circulars.

Content that has been moved to the archive will not be updated and the information is therefore exclusively of an historical nature.

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    News
  • Seed security at the UN Food Systems Summit

    05/07/2021 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    In September 2021, the UN Secretary-General will convene a Food Systems Summit and a Pre-Summit is planned for the last week in July. In this connection, Norway has proposed the game-changing idea Putting farmers’ and indigenous peoples´ access to

  • Securing the Gene Pool for Future Agriculture and Food Production

    22/06/2021 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    Genetic diversity is the foundation of agriculture. It enables crops to adapt to different growing conditions, breeding of strong and healthy farm animals and our forests to cope with climate change. The overall goal of this national strategy is to

  • New shipment of seeds to Svalbard Global Seed Vault

    03/06/2021 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    This week, more than 30,000 additional seed bags from five continents were deposited for safe storage in the seed vault on Svalbard. It is the largest seed deposit since the pandemic was confirmed.

  • 125,000 cervids tested for Chronic Wasting Disease

    30/03/2021 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    As many as 125,000 cervids have been tested at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (Veterinærinstituttet) since the first wild reindeer was diagnosed with Chronic Wasting Disease - CWD in 2016. The samples come from cervids that were hunted, as well

  • Infections from animals and the environment to humans − a growing problem

    12/03/2021 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    People can contract diseases caused by pathogens found in both animals and the environment. Pandemics seem to be getting more frequent. Why? Moreover, can new pandemics be avoided? These were some of the topics that the Norwegian Minister of

  • A Task for Eternity

    02/11/2020 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    Deep inside a mountain on an island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, more than one million seeds of crops from around the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The storage facility thus

  • Successful seed deposit despite the pandemic

    30/10/2020 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    In the midst of the ongoing global pandemic, gene banks are sending backup copies of their seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. This week, around 15,000 new bags of seeds from eight gene banks were safely placed on the shelves in the seed vault.

  • Norway observes the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

    08/10/2020 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    Norway observed the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste at 29th September.

  • Norwegian borders to open for entry by some EEA nationals

    01/04/2020 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    Norway is opening its borders for seasonal workers from EEA countries in the agricultural, horticultural and forestry sectors and the food industry.

  • Residence permit extension for foreign workers

    22/03/2020 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs is working on an amendment to the Immigration Regulations to allow foreign workers already in Norway to receive a residence permit extension. This amendment is of great importance to agriculture.

  • Major Seed deposit at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Longyearbyen

    25/02/2020 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    Today, 36 genebanks from all continents deposited seeds at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, at a deposit event hosted by Norwegian Prime Minister and co-chair ofthe UN group of SDG Advocates, Erna Solberg. President of Ghana and co-chair Nana Addo

  • New suppliers for the seed vault

    01/11/2019 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    For the first time, seeds were received from the Slovak gene bank, as well as from Poland, to Svalbard's Global seed vault. With the two new suppliers, deposits from 78 different gene banks are now stored in the vault.

  • National Pollinator Strategy

    04/10/2018 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    A strategy for viable populations of wild bees and other pollinating insects

  • Norway’s Deputy Minister Visits Malawi with International Treaty

    07/03/2018 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    Hanne Maren Blafjelldal, Norway’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food joined FAO’s International Treaty Secretary, Kent Nnadozie, on a very special field mission in Africa today - to visit farmers’ fields in Malawi.

  • Chronic Wasting Disease: All known animals in Nordfjella dispatched

    27/02/2018 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    The Norwegian Environment Agency reports that the last known group of wild reindeer of Zone 1 in Nordfjella has been felled. Now the area is to be searched to make sure it is cleared of animals. 17 cases of CWD have been detected in reindeer from

  • 1 million seed samples are now stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

    26/02/2018 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    Today, just over 76,000 new seed samples were carried into Svalbard Global Seed Vault for long-term storage. This means that the seed vault now holds more than 1 million seed samples from gene banks worldwide. Norway's Miinister for Agriculture and

  • The government proposes to allocate 100 million NOK to upgrade the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

    23/02/2018 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    After ten years of operation, it is time for technical improvements at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The measures are part of a long-term plan to enhance the performance and extend the viability of the seed vault. The government is now proposing a

  • Ten-year anniversary of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

    22/02/2018 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    Minister of Agriculture and Food Jon Georg Dale in cooperation with Crop Trust and NordGen is pleased to host a celebration of the tenth anniversary of Svalbard Global Seed Vault. From February 25. to 27., depositors and partners from all over the

  • The Government's Bioeconomy Strategy

    16/02/2018 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    The Government's Bioeconomy Strategy is now available in english. The strategy was developed in a collaboration between the Ministries of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Agriculture and Food, Climate and Environment, Education and Research, Local

  • New retrievement of seeds from Svalbard Global Seed Vault to replace Alleppo gene bank

    06/09/2017 News story Ministry of Agriculture and Food

    At the same time when ICARDA brings back to the Seed Vault 7 511 samples from last years multiplication of seeds at their stations in Lebanon and Morocco, 52 451 seeds samples, initially sent to the Svalbard from their gene bank in Aleppo, Syria, is

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