{"id":29698,"date":"2022-04-28T09:06:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.axfoundation.se\/?p=29698"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:22:31","slug":"axfoundation-launches-center-for-future-food-to-accelerate-sustainable-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.axfoundation.se\/en\/news\/axfoundation-launches-center-for-future-food-to-accelerate-sustainable-innovation","title":{"rendered":"Axfoundation launches center for future food to accelerate sustainable innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Axfoundation opens a test farm and practical center for sustainable food systems just north of Stockholm, Sweden. The ambition is to increase the pace of sustainable food innovation.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Press release 2022-04-28:<\/strong>The Swedish non-profit organization Axfoundation is throwing open the gates of a test farm and practical center for sustainable food systems. Just north of Stockholm, Tors\u00e5ker Farm<\/a> is growing. It now includes fields, an experimental garden, and a newly renovated barn equipped with four test kitchens and bakery. The ambition is to increase the pace of sustainable food innovation.<\/p>\n

We want to help accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems, for the sake of the climate, the environment and public health. At Tors\u00e5ker Farm, we work together with scientists and practitioners to evaluate sustainable farming and aquaculture methods, and now we can also take the results straight from the fields and water to processing in our test kitchens. Here, we can pressure test innovations before scaling them up. We want to shorten the path between sustainable ideas and finished solutions,\u00a0says Madeleine Linins M\u00f6rner, Program Director for Future Food at Axfoundation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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For some years now, Axfoundation has been running several innovation projects at Tors\u00e5ker Farm, including one which evaluates how much carbon can be stored in cropland. Practical research is also underway to develop perennial crops such as wheat and bulbous barley. Other examples of successful innovations born on the farm include minced bream made from unused bycatch from Swedish lakes, and Swedish Minced Legumes made from Swedish crops, completely soy-free. With the inauguration of \u201cLadug\u00e5rden\u201d (the Barn), operations are now expanding further.<\/p>\n

Built in the 18th century, the newly renovated Ladug\u00e5rden houses four test kitchens, a restaurant kitchen and a bakery, among other facilities. Axfoundation\u2019s hope is that the new center will help lower the threshold for innovators looking to make the leap from sustainable idea to industrial manufacturing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We often stumble on interesting ideas from scientists and entrepreneurs.\u00a0Now that Ladug\u00e5rden is up and running, we can help more people make the leap to a large-scale production,\u00a0says Anna Henning Moberg, Manager for Project Development and Test Kitchen Operations at Tors\u00e5ker Farm.\u00a0Our ambition is to increase the pace of sustainable food innovation with products that are simultaneously useful in everyday life and sustainable for both humans and the environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Tors\u00e5ker Farm will be a new Swedish center for knowledge exchange and practical innovation for sustainable food systems. Axfoundation\u2019s Secretary General Maria Smith sees great potential in creating a physical space where actors from throughout the food chain can gather \u2013 from researchers to practitioners such as farmers, fishermen, food processors, chefs, entrepreneurs, and trade and wholesaler representatives.<\/p>\n

At Tors\u00e5ker Farm, we want to help solve the sustainability challenges of the food chain, but these are complex issues that no single actor can solve on their own. As an independent organization, Axfoundation can bring together both the business community and academia, and together we can find concrete solutions to common problems, says Axfoundation\u2019s Secretary General Maria Smith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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The force behind Tors\u00e5ker Farm is Axfoundation, a non-profit organization that, under the leadership of Chairman of the Board Alexandra M\u00f6rner, has developed from a small application foundation to a unifying actor for practical solutions. The Tors\u00e5ker Farm venture has been made possible by Axfoundation founder Antonia Ax:son Johnson and her family.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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At Tors\u00e5ker farm there are fields, meadows, woodland, and an experimental garden. Here, Axfoundation brings together researchers and practitioners from the entire food chain to achieve concrete results<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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The barn at Tors\u00e5ker farm has four test kitchens, a bakery and a restaurant kitchen. The barn's facility is suitable for testing and development of everything from vegetable foods to meat and seafood products.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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