http://sustainability/Journal from the swedish research agency Formas.60http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8711&epslanguage=enThe forest kingdom and the culinary nation.8711http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8713&epslanguage=enFirst class raw materials are essential if Sweden is to become the new culinary nation in Europe.8713http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8800&epslanguage=enCurrent fish research is engaged on more than just measuring growth. Studies will now be made on stress tolerance and risk-taking behaviour among Arctic charr. The results may decide which will be allowed to contribute with their offspring to future fish cultures.8800http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8801&epslanguage=enOn the day a human runs a marathon, she or he uses up unbelievable amounts of energy. A modern dairy cow uses up the same energy every day. Therefore she needs to both eat and sleep. The question is how much?8801http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8802&epslanguage=enProduction and consumption of food account for a considerable proportion of our total environmental impact and resource consumption, and at the same time food is absolutely essential for all. All the time. The aim of the project Routes towards a sustainable food sector is to synthesise, in a structured manner, the large amount of available knowledge of the different components of selected food chains into coherent scenarios of conceivable and more sustainable future chains.8802http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8806&epslanguage=enHow can the nutritional needs of pigs be satisfied by increased use of local and unutilised feed resources?8806http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8807&epslanguage=enThe producers in the Swedish horticultural industry turn over more than BSEK 5.5. There is therefore increasing interest in horticulture – the science of how to grow, process and market fruit, berries, vegetables, herbs and other plants. Current horticultural research is investigating, inter alia, how both grey mould and powder mildew can be controlled biologically.8807http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8808&epslanguage=enThe products and services of the countryside have increased. This applies to both supply and demand.8808http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8809&epslanguage=enTown and country – hand in hand. This is what a common political slogan says. There is certainly a mutual dependence between town and country in the meaning that the countryside produces nature-based products such as food, electricity, paper and other things that are largely consumed by the urban population. Now, however, rural areas are expected to an increasing extent to produce also a number of services for the benefit of the urban population. Can a partnership be the solution of the dilemma of how natural resources are used and conserved?8809http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8810&epslanguage=enLandowners, investors, regional planners and citizens may have conflicting interests as regards forest land.8810http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8811&epslanguage=enThey must be able to swim well if they are to survive in the wild, outside the protective environment of the hatchery8811http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8812&epslanguage=enAquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in the world. Almost every other fish that we eat is farmed. The Swedish aquaculture industry is however of modest proportions. Active collaboration is taking place between Aquaculture Centre West, Göteborg University and Centre for Wildlife and Fish Research at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU where the focus is on the coordination of research and education in the fish and aquaculture sector.8812http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8725&epslanguage=en...top of the the wish list of KSLA. Sustainability has been granted an interview with Sara von Arnold, president of the Academy.8725http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8776&epslanguage=enEight strong research teams received grants from Formas in November 2011.8776http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8778&epslanguage=enArchitect Christina Bodin Danielsson works at the firm Brunnberg&Forshed as a specialist on office environments. She has just received a “mobility grant” from Formas for an ongoing research project.8778http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8779&epslanguage=enBjörn Öhlander is Professor of Applied Geology at Luleå Technical University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He and his research team applied for a grant from Formas’ large call for applications and were allocated MSEK 3.9 for a three year project entitled Stabilisation of sulphidic mining waste with green liquor sludge from the paper industry.8779http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8780&epslanguage=enAn elderly person may become a prisoner in his or her own home. Not least because of the fear of falling. This is known by everybody who has – or has had – an old relative.8780http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8781&epslanguage=enDiesel exhausts and ozone interact, and together they give rise to a stronger effect in the airways than on their own.8781http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8782&epslanguage=enEnvironmental toxicants such as dioxins, PCB and herbicides may pose a risk of cardiovascular disease. For the first time, it has been possible to demonstrate a link between increased concentrations of persistent organic environmental toxicants in the blood and atherosclerosis.8782http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8783&epslanguage=enEvery tenth Swedish forest species is red listed. An increasingly intensive forest management is carried on at the expense of these species, shows a new study at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU. We are on the way towards a forestry landscape with very little ancient forest. And the new forests will not have the same nature qualities as the old ones.8783http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8784&epslanguage=enThe environmental toxicant Bisphenol A can affect the infant brain.8784http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8777&epslanguage=enWhat harmful effects do nanomaterials, which are used in the construction industry and other applications, have on human health? How are rural areas to be developed, and how to get young people to take part in the development? Can feeding strategies contribute to a reduction in methane production by cows? Is it possible to lure the insect pest codling moth with pheromones so that the apples are left alone? These are some of the projects that were granted funds by Formas Scientific Council in November 2011.8777http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8794&epslanguage=enOf seven EU member countries, it is Sweden that has the lowest antibiotic consumption in the livestock husbandry. Swedish sales are about three times lower than in Denmark and about nine times lower than in the Netherlands. This is shown by sales statistics from the European Medicines Agency EMA.8794http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8795&epslanguage=enBoth caterpillars and spiders can make silk. This is a thin, strong and sticky string of protein which, in the case of the silkworm, can be used to make cloth. But researchers have now discovered that an animal like a crustacean also has the same ability. This is a type of cumacean, Crassicorophium bonellii, which lives in the sea over most parts of the world.8795http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8796&epslanguage=enThe diatom Skeletonema marinoi often dominates the algal blooms in the Baltic Sea. In spite of the toxins it produces, the alga, in a natural food environment together with other planktonic algae, provides perfect nutrition for copepods. A thesis on this subject was defended at Umeå University in December 2011.8796http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8797&epslanguage=enThe number of pigs which were allowed to graze outside increased by 20 per cent in 2011. This is the largest increase ever.8797http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8798&epslanguage=enPower transmission route corridors cannot replace the natural environments of farmland birds, shows a new investigation from Biodiversity Centre at Uppsala University (CBM) and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU.8798http://sustainability.formas.se/Templates/Pages/Article.aspx?id=8799&epslanguage=enLike many other amphibians, the great crested newt has become less common during the past few decades. A thesis from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU describes what characterises the environments where the newt is still found. Warm ponds with species-rich vegetation, but without fishes and crustaceans, surrounded by deciduous trees and grassland, were found to be especially valuable.8799