Food Nation - Stories by Denmark

Everyone has a right to safe and healthy food. But it is still out of reach for a large part of the global population, with severe consequences for health and wellbeing. In Denmark, food and agricultural companies are joining forces to make healthier food choices more easily accessible and to uncover the effect of food and diet on lifestyle disease and malnutrition.

Denmark launched the world’s first organic food label in 1987 and has led the organic movement ever since. In this Food Nation live podcast, we talk to two entrepreneurs about Denmark’s organic drivers – and, in particular, the passion and innovation that have built Europe’s largest organic meat company and a brand new category in organic drinks. Listen in at foodnationdenmark.com or on your favourite podcast app.

Join a guided tour of the Danish food cluster in the first podcast from Food Nation. Peder Tuborgh, CEO at Arla Foods; Anders Bering, vice-president of corporate affairs at Carlsberg and Lise Walbom, CEO at Food Nation, discuss the strongholds that have made Denmark a world leader – and an innovative partner for the international food and agriculture sector.

Denmark's ingredient sector meets the needs of markets all over the world – and many of their challenges.
Today, established ingredient companies, research institutes and start-ups are developing ingredients as bio-solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change, biodiversity loss, health and food waste.
Meet some of the Danish specialists working with sustainable proteins, biological plant protectants and bioactive compounds from seaweed in this episode of the Food Nation podcast.

Denmark has always been a land of fishers. But today most of the wild fish catch is exported all over the world.

So what can a leading seafood nation do to balance the growing demand for seafood with the need to protect the marine eco-balance?
In this episode of the Food Nation podcast, we visit successful export companies Royal Greenland, FF Skagen and Scandic Pelagic to find out how they’re working with ocean to plate sustainability.