Norway’s soils are very young in relative terms. The limited amount of soils suitable for crops were subject to the usual suspects like erosion in previous decades.
They’re quite exposed from a food security perspective as there is a huge reliance on imports.
When I went to Norway a couple of times back I visited a farm around 90 mins north of Oslo. They grew literally 1/3 of the nation’s onions, housed in five story high barns. The smell was overwhelming but really cool.
I did a 4 day tour of Norway, from Olso to Bergen and back. Stunning country. But no farm land. Reminded me a lot of Northern Ontario tbh, lots of rock and woods.
I don’t feel like looking it up. I’m guessing arable land means land you can Farm on? I thought you can farm just about anywhere if the weather was good enough? Can’t you just add some manure or something?
This is misleading. The classification “arable land” is a bureaucratic classification, and it refers to land that is currently set aside for farming.
But that doesn’t mean this 3.5% of land is the only land in Norway you can physically farm on. Far from it. Most notably, about 40% of Norway is woodland. And any land that supports a forest would also support agriculture. And all the parks, natural reserves, residential land, commercial, industrial, etc. would also support agriculture, if they were repurposed.
None of that will happen anytime soon, of course. But that’s by choice. It could happen, if they wanted to make it happen. If international trade broke down completely, Norwegians wouldn’t starve to death due to not having enough land to farm on. They would just chop down some of the woods, and turn them into arable land.
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Norway’s soils are very young in relative terms. The limited amount of soils suitable for crops were subject to the usual suspects like erosion in previous decades.
They’re quite exposed from a food security perspective as there is a huge reliance on imports.
theres a reason why they were pillaging places for a period, you gotta get your food from somewhere
If you go to Norway and buy a cucumber, you’ll see what that translates into for your wallet. Cha-ching!
When I went to Norway a couple of times back I visited a farm around 90 mins north of Oslo. They grew literally 1/3 of the nation’s onions, housed in five story high barns. The smell was overwhelming but really cool.
Bonus TIL: Norway has the second longest coastline after Canada (longer than Russia) and the largest sovereign wealth fund
Makes sense why they became shipping giants
Now you know why they went on and conquered England with their Danish buddies.
I did a 4 day tour of Norway, from Olso to Bergen and back. Stunning country. But no farm land. Reminded me a lot of Northern Ontario tbh, lots of rock and woods.
*in aussie accent* naurway!!
The saying was, still is, you make your living from fish or rock.
Anybody want some more dried cod?!?
I don’t feel like looking it up. I’m guessing arable land means land you can Farm on? I thought you can farm just about anywhere if the weather was good enough? Can’t you just add some manure or something?
This is misleading. The classification “arable land” is a bureaucratic classification, and it refers to land that is currently set aside for farming.
But that doesn’t mean this 3.5% of land is the only land in Norway you can physically farm on. Far from it. Most notably, about 40% of Norway is woodland. And any land that supports a forest would also support agriculture. And all the parks, natural reserves, residential land, commercial, industrial, etc. would also support agriculture, if they were repurposed.
None of that will happen anytime soon, of course. But that’s by choice. It could happen, if they wanted to make it happen. If international trade broke down completely, Norwegians wouldn’t starve to death due to not having enough land to farm on. They would just chop down some of the woods, and turn them into arable land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maaemo
That’s amazing. Maaemo is a 3 Michelin star restaurant in Norway that uses local sources. That must be like super hard mode.
That’s why the fuckers invaded England, Ireland, france etc. Then by default the world
They should ar on the side of caution
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