Speeches and articles by the minister of agriculture and food Olaug Vervik Bollestad
-
Ministerial statement at the pre-summit to the UN Food Systems Summit
27/07/2021Statement (digital) by four Ministers at the pre-summit to the UN Food Systems Summit; Minister of Agriculture and Food Olaug Bollestad, Minister of Fisheries and Seafood Odd E. Ingebrigtsen, Minister of Climate and Environment Sveinung Rotevatn and Minister of International Development Dag-Inge Ulstein.
By Minister of Fisheries and Seafood Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen , Minister of Agriculture and Food Olaug Vervik Bollestad, Former Minister of International Development Dag-Inge Ulstein, Minister of Climate and Environment Sveinung Rotevatn 27 July
-
Intervention Norway FAO Conference 14-18 June 2021
15/06/2021Statement by Minister of Agriculture and Food Olaug Bollestad at the FAO confersene, 14-18 June 2021.
-
Presented on Thursday April 15. at the ministerial round table meeting - 8th Ministerial Conference - Forest Europe
15/04/2021Excellencies, chairperson and conference organizersIn
-
13th Berlin Agriculture Ministers' Conference 22 January 2021
22/01/2021Dear Minister Klöckner, dear colleagues,
-
Food makes peace
30/12/2020The Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 has been awarded to the World Food Program (WFP) for its efforts in the fight against hunger, and for creating the conditions for peace in areas with a high risk of conflict. WFP is the world's largest humanitarian organization for eliminating hunger and promoting food security.
-
A Task for Eternity
02/11/2020Deep inside a mountain on an island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, more than one million seeds of crops from around the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The storage facility thus contains the world’s largest backup collection of seed samples. By establishing the Seed Vault, Norway has taken on a global task that will never be completed. The best way to manage this responsibility is to do so in an eternal perspective.
-
General statement by the Minister of Agriculture and Food of Norway
24/06/2019Excellences, Chairperson, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, Let me start by congratulating the Director General elect, Dr. Qu Dongyu. We look forward to cooperating with you. To outgoing Director General, Dr. José Graziano da Silva, we thank you for
By Minister of Agriculture and Food Olaug Vervik Bollestad FAO- Generalkonferans, Roma 2019
-
Combatting Chronic wasting disease in Norway
12/03/2019Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible neurologic disease (TSE) affecting cervids. The infectious agent is known to be a prion, a normal protein that in this disease misfolds and destroys the brain. The development of the disease is slow and always fatal. Affected cervids show loss of body condition and altered behaviour. Contrary to other TSE like BSE and scrapie, CWD prion proteins are also found outside the neurologic system like body fluids, lymphatic tissue and excreta.