Urban farming in Norway
Welcome to the national site for urban farming in Norway
About us
Urbantlandbruk.no is established and operated by Norges Vel to gather the industry information and exchange ideas.
Norges Vel is a non-profit and independent member organisation that helps create local, sustainable jobs and products in the food, agriculture and blue sectors. Our goal with urbantlandbruk.no is to promote new value chains and secure food availability locally in cities and urban areas. The methods are the same as at our establishment of Norges Vel in 1809: Cooperation, knowledge sharing and business development.
Urban agriculture is an industry with many opportunities and new challenges. Knowledge and expertise are constantly evolving and need to be shared to create synergies and growth. It should not be necessary for each one of us to reinvent the wheel, but rather use the resources to develop to the next level - and to lift the industry up and forward. We are clearly not looking to exchange competitive sensitive information, but rather exchange ideas that we can all benefit from.
On urbantlandbruk.no you will find expertise, inspiration and other resources related to urban agriculture. Urbantlandbruk.no shall be a resource used in developing the industry and promote sharing of information. This will contribute to connect needs-oriented expertise as well as partners in new projects and to develop companies.
Urbanlandbruk.no shall be a resource by being a database for you who operate in urban agriculture as well as in other involved/affiliated disciplines: research, technology suppliers, trade, architecture, city and real estate developers, politicians, the support media and many more. Projects and activities for private parsell gardens, private gardens, school gardens, small cooperatives and allotment gardens also play important roles in urban agriculture, but our focus is business development and value creation.
What is urban agriculture?
According to the Norwegian government "urban agriculture denotes a number of different activities related to cultivation and livestock farming in urban and urban areas. The use of urban land can be commercial, in the form of more traditional agriculture and horticulture, share agriculture, roof farms, combined land-based fish farming and vegetable production, cultivation in height e.g. in empty industrial buildings, or beekeeping. Urban agriculture can also be cultivation in parsell gardens, school gardens, roof gardens, communal gardens, private gardens, pallet frames and on balconies."
Norwegian strategy for urban agriculture
You can read more about urban agriculture in Norway in the national strategy for urban agriculture.
