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Future Food Security in the Nordic-Baltic Region: Merging Past, Present and Future
01.01.2025

The Nordic-Baltic region is expected to experience some of the largest effects of global climate change in the next decades. Nordic-Baltic crops must be adapted to these shifts. Breeding a new crop variety can take decades and it is thus imperative that breeders begin creating the crops of the future today. For this, breeders need information on the expected future climate throughout the Nordic-Baltic region, information on how crop performance relates to observed weather and flexible statistics toolkits for projecting future crop performance based on projections of future climate. The purpose of this project is to build a Nordic-Baltic-level crop and climate information data store that allows Nordic and Baltic crop breeders to quickly access a broad array of weather and crop productivity information. After two years of work, in 2025 we finalized a comprehensive pan-Nordic field trial database for Barley, Red Clover and potatoes. This involves a compilation of over 100.000 field trials from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

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Egill Gautason

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