Denmark: Agro Food Valley

by S. C.

Denmark has a good basis for taking a leading position in food production. In 2008, the European Commission named Denmark as one of the three strongest food clusters in Europe. A food cluster is a coherent group of food-related businesses, suppliers, customers, public authorities and research institutions.

This is one reason why Danish businesses have an advantage in terms of ensuring growth without compromising the environment, climate of animal welfare.

“We are already strong in food products, but we can become even better,” says Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Eva Kjer Hansen.

“Denmark is to become one the world’s food industry centres – an ‘Agro Food Valley’. We should be a driving force for the production, development and processing of food and related products. To reach this target we must identify the possibilities and barriers that need political action.”

The identification of barriers against and the possibilities for creating an Agro Food Valley is the subject of a conference at the Dansk Design Centre in Copenhagen on 5th February.
The work at the conference, which is one of several, will result in a report on how Denmark can reach the ambitious targets for 2022. The report is to be published in the autumn of 2009.