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Danish Authorities

Danish Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries

Danish Plant Directorate
The Danish Plant Directorate is responsible for the quality and health of agricultural produce and the control of the EU agricultural subsidy schemes.

Danish Veterinary and Food Administration
The objective of the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration is to contribute towards protecting consumers from health risks and misinformation and promoting good dietary habits.

Danish Directorate for Food, Fisheries and Agro Business
The Directorate administers EU agricultural policy and EU subsidy schemes for agricultural products, fruit and horticultural products, as well as fish products.

Danish Organisations

Biodynamisk Jordbrug
Association for biodynamic farmers in Denmark.

The Danish Family Farmers' Association
A general agricultural association organizing about 14,000 members distributed all over the country, mainly small holders.

Danish Farmers Union
A general agricultural association organizing about 40,000 members distributed all over the country.


The Agricultural Advisory Board
National center for the farmers own advisory service.

Danish Agricultural Council
Danish Agricultural Council is a joint committee for the Danish farmers' associations, Federation of Danish cooperatives and a number of professional organisations which represent the cooperatively owned part of the food industry, as well as part of the privately owned food industry.

The Centre for Organic Agriculture in Denmark
The centre is a common secretary for the Danish organic organisations.

Danish research institutes

Aalborg University
Research in humanities, engineering, natural sciences and social Sciences.

Institute of Local Government Studies
AKF investigates problems that are of interest to the public sector and its users.

Aarhus University
Research in Healths sciences, social sciences, theology and science.

Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences
DIAS is a sector research institution under the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.

National Environment Research Institute
NERI is an independent research institute under the Danish Ministry of the Environment

Technical University of Denmark
Research in a wide array of activities in fields such as biotechnology, communications technology, nanotechnology and development of technologies for sustainable energy.

The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL)
Research within the fields of natural science, veterinary medicine, animal science, environmental science, agriculture, horticulture, landscape architecture and landscape ecology, forestry, food sciences and human nutrition.

Danish Forest and Landscape Institute
DFLRI is a sector research institute under the Ministry of the Environment.

Risø National Laboratory
Risø is a national laboratory under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. It carries out research in science and technology

University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the largest institution of research and education in Denmark.

The National Committee for Pig Production
The Danish Pig producers R&D organization

Natural History Museum
A private institution subsidized by the Ministry of Culture, the municipality of Aarhus, the university of Aarhus and by its own income.

Roskilde University
State university founded in 1972 providing research and education at the highest level in the fields of natural science, social science and the humanities.

Danish Research Institute of Food Economics
FØI is a research institute under the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries. The mission of the Institute is to contribute to a better understanding of the economic aspects of the production, consumption and marketing of food.

Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory
DPIL's work areas deal with insect and mammal pests on domestic animals, in stocks, buildings and used materials.

Danish Veterinary Institute
The DVI is a Governmental research institute under the auspices of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries like its two predecessors.


Education

Research School for Organic Agriculture and Food Systems (SOAR)
Research school for Ph.D.-students in organic agriculture and food system.

The Organic Agricultural College
The college was founded in 1982 and from the very beginning it was specialised in organic farming.

Trade

Organic-Denmark
Web-portal for trade with organic products

International information about ecology and research

IFOAM
The international federation of organic movements

organic-europe
Reports on organic farming in 25 European countries, adress database etc.

organic-research
Information on research & education and a database of scientific articles

Link-organic
Links to organic companies etc.

Scandinavian research centres

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Sweden
CUL is a focal-point for researchers and institutions interested in research, development, education and information related to ecological agriculture.

The Norwegian Centre for Ecological Agriculture, Norway
NORSØK is an institute who works with research- and development of organic agriculture.

MTT Agrifood Research, Finland
MTT Agrifood Research Finland is an expert body operating under the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. We produce and disseminate scientific research information and develop and promote the transfer of new technology for the agriculture and food sector as a whole.