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Volume 11 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2024.1330892 This article is part of the Research TopicNutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate ActionView all 4 articles Eating habits are among the strongest drivers of negative environmental impact Public procurement has been suggested as an efficient lever to catalyze changes within the food system This study examines alternative purchase processes that may decrease the carbon footprint of publicly procured food through a case study of a municipality in the Northern part of Sweden The GHG emissions associated with the current food service in the case study were 2.2 kg CO2e per kg food and must be reduced by 40.9% by 2030 to comply with the Paris Agreement; 76% of the emissions derive from food of animal origin (44% from unprocessed red meat) “zero red meat,” “−50% red meat,” and “flexitarian free from red meat,” were explored Only 6% of the total purchased food kilograms were altered yet the cutback of meat caused GHG emissions reductions turned out to be as high as 44% and local politicians' reluctance to change were mentioned as the main obstacles to materializing necessary changes in the food procurement system The respondents also pointed out essential policy changes at the national and municipal levels and the worth of public procurement of food is 10 billion SEK (≈9 million USD) per year from serving 3 million meals a day the turnover of public procured food is 24 million SEK (≈2.1 million USD) and 1.1 million meals are served per year (schools and retirement homes included With the overall ambition to continue building upon previous knowledge and research within food systems and decarbonization the objectives of this study were primarily to identify the main contributors to GHG emissions within publicly procured food in the municipality of Härnösand and to evaluate different climate mitigation scenarios (“zero red meat,” “−50% red meat,” and “flexitarian free from red meat”) aiming to decreasing the carbon footprint through strategic replacements of animal protein by less carbon-intense alternatives obstacles and enablers for materializing such a dietary shift in public gastronomy were assessed The data gathered for this study consist of a variation of sources from Härnösand from secondary data on food procurement to interviews with policymakers all to enable responding to the central research questions guiding this study The database includes a carbon footprint based on LCAs of more than 800 (imported and national) food products representative of Swedish food consumption The system boundaries used for the LCAs are cradle to gate (including all activities starting with the extraction of materials from the earth and fabrication activities until the material or product is ready to leave the process factory or farm) but packaging and transports within Sweden were excluded The rationale behind this is that as public procurers buy in bulk and the wholesaler's logistic systems are optimized packaging and transport constitute a relatively small share of the total carbon footprint and are similar for all product types the potential changes in soil organic carbon in the agricultural soils are not accounted for in the footprint of the food product The carbon footprints provided in the database were calculated based on global warming potential (GWP) retrieved from life cycle assessments (LCA) of food products representative specifically for Swedish food consumption. Climate impact is in all cases expressed in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) per kilogram of food and thus includes the total climate impact from all greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) (27) the carbon footprint was supplied for each of the 5,953 products in the purchasing data multiplied by the total amount of the purchased goods (kg) for the 12 months to obtain the total emissions The data on the number of goods purchased from the municipality of Härnösand have high accuracy In order to match the 5,953 products with the 800 datasets in the database etc.) compared to 11 types of rice in the database the matches were based on the country of origin the carbon footprint of the 44 types listed in the purchasing data was taken from the closest possible match with the 13 types in the database and whether it was an organic or conventional product For all vegetables grown in greenhouses (cucumber the assumption was made that all vegetables originating from Holland and Belgium have been grown in greenhouses with a heating source (hence higher emissions) while vegetables originating from Spain were assumed to be grown in open fields or greenhouses without heating (lower emissions) assumptions about the country of origin were made when the purchased product was not available in the database with the correct country of origin it was assumed that the production was affected by the same emissions Microsoft Excel 2019 was used for these calculations The scenarios were designed with the aim of decreasing the carbon footprint through strategic replacements of the food products associated with the highest emissions according to the carbon footprint calculations by less carbon-intensive alternatives As strict vegan or vegetarian diets are not readily adopted by the broad public less carbon-intensive meat sources were included in all scenarios different proportions (in kilograms) of red meat (beef by an equivalent protein source (in kilograms) with a lower carbon footprint An attempt was made to present beef separately as it is subject to the greatest emissions but as many semi-finished products contain both beef and pork Scenario 1 was named the “zero red meat scenario.” In this scenario all red meat was removed from the serving and replaced by vegetable protein Animal proteins other than red meat (fish & poultry) remained as it was served originally the “−50% red meat scenario,” 50% of the red meat was replaced by vegetable protein a third scenario was calculated; the “flexitarian free from red meat scenario,” in which all red meat was eliminated and 50% was replaced by fish and poultry and the other half by vegetable protein To assess the likelihood that a decarbonization of the food procurement system would be carried out data on obstacles and enablers for a municipality committed to adapting to the necessary changes were collected interviews with the municipal procurement organization and kitchen in Härnösand were conducted suppliers and producers as well as municipalities in other parts of Sweden that have been successful in transforming the procurement procedures were interviewed By complementing the case study in Härnösand with data from other municipalities that have implemented decarbonization solutions that may be applicable to this case good examples and potential pathways for improvement in terms of sustainable food procurement were illustrated Despite a municipal policy to support local food production most of the purchased food in Härnösand is imported from other Swedish regions or abroad Five local food producers were thus selected representing the three most common food categories produced in the region: vegetables They were interviewed about perceived obstacles and enablers to deliver food to the municipality Attempts were made to identify producers who conduct their business within Härnösand immediate area producers were recruited from geographically adjacent regions The interviewed producers were as follows: potato producer in Härnösand vegetable producer in Härnösand A part from the case municipality Härnösand, four other municipalities that have documented accomplishments within sustainable food procurement (30) were selected to be interviewed Those four municipalities were selected from “Ekomatligan,” the top-ranking Swedish municipalities based on their certified organic purchases Municipalities of a size comparable to Härnösand with documented examples of creative and innovative ways to carry out their purchases The food and service managers and directors of nutrition were interviewed from one and each of the four municipalities Illustrative quotes from the interviewees were selected aiming to represent the view of all interviewed municipalities The interviewees received full disclosure of the study objective all interviews were carried out with informed consent The research is not subject to the Swedish Ethics Review Act (2003:460) as it does not handle sensitive personal data according to the data protection regulation (GDPR) of EU or aims to influence research subjects physically or psychologically The aim of these interviews was to identify success factors for transforming the PFP toward sustainability and decreased GHG emissions. There is a public register in Sweden of GHG emissions associated with food in the public sector (the lack of synthesized open-access LCA data on food in the public domain is a limitation, indicated by, e.g., Clune, Crossin, and Verghese (14) there are statistics on the proportion of Swedish and organic food that are purchased within Swedish municipalities it has been assumed that the municipalities that make an extra effort to procure organic and Swedish products may also be eager to promote decarbonization or other aspects of sustainability Municipalities that have a high proportion of organic purchases were thus defined as “good examples.” The results from carbon footprint analysis show that the emissions in the municipality of Härnösand need to reduced in order to comply with the Paris agreement and the municipal policies the GHG emissions associated with the food service in the municipality of Härnösand deviated from the global sustainability goals During the period 1st of August 2021 to the 31st of July 2022 the GHG emissions were on average 2.2 kg CO2e per kilo of food served To comply with the municipal sustainability goals (that are based on the Paris Agreement) the GHG emissions associated with the food service need to be reduced by 40.9% to 1.3 kg CO2e per kilo of food served Figure 1 illustrates how the emissions correlate to the respective food category: 76% of the emissions derive from food of animal origin: 44% of the emissions are derived from processed or unprocessed red meat (pork Figure 2 displays the origin of the main protein source served at each meal during the 12-month period The proportion of pork that is bacon was large and thus reported separately (28%) When the 31 vegetarian meals were examined it was revealed that half of them were pancakes The carbon footprint from the three alternative scenarios compared to the baseline (current state) is shown in Figure 3 The carbon footprint can be reduced by 44% if Härnösand municipality chooses to adopt the “Zero red meat” scenario by 22% if the “−50% red meat scenario” is chosen and finally by 39% if the “flexitarian free from red meat” scenario is chosen It is noteworthy that the fractions that were altered in the three scenarios (meat and fish/poultry) constituted only 6% of the total purchased food in terms of mass (in kilograms) the cutback of meat caused GHG emissions reductions as high as 44% Current state of total CO2e emissions (kg) per food category The orange bar illustrates today's emissions which generated 2.2 kg CO2e per kilogram of food served To reach its goals of reducing GHG emissions to a level in accordance with the Paris Agreement the municipality of Härnösand could adopt either the “flexitarian free from red meat” (1,35 kg CO2e per kilo served food) or the “zero red meat scenario” (1,24 kg CO2e per kilo served food) by 2030 Figures 4–6 show the effect of replacing red meat as food with alternative protein sources The y-axis shows the kilograms of CO2e that the specific food group has emitted during the 12-month period Raw meat and processed meat are together emitting 411,542 and 344,555 kg CO2e Replacing all red meat with vegetable protein the “zero red meat” scenario would entail a reduction in emissions by 756,097 kg CO2e per year The −50% red beef scenario renders a decrease of 22% and a total emission of 1,313,299 kg CO2e for the period The emissions from legumes end up at 9,199 kg CO2e while the emissions from the red meat are 378,049 kg CO2e The “flexitarian free from red meat” scenario is the closest to what is required of the municipality to reach the Paris Agreement It renders a decrease in emissions at 39% where the legumes emit 9,199 kg CO2e and the mix of fish and poultry emit 96,300 kg CO2e Total CO2e emissions (kg) per food category from the −50% red meat scenario Total CO2e emissions (kg) per food category from the zero red meat scenario Total CO2e emissions (kg) per food category from the flexitarian free from red meat scenario Perceived obstacles and enablers by producers and the procurement department in Härnösand All the interviewed kitchens mentioned the challenge of getting children and the elderly to be curious about new diets An interviewee from one of the interviewed municipalities said “We are working towards bringing in more plant-based food—it's a slow process It is a challenge; we are working actively towards the vegetarian dishes; the children are slowly beginning to recognize and enjoy them We are a ‘workers town,' where potatoes and meat have been a big part of our food culture for a long time We are serving parallel dishes that are vegetarian it is difficult to make the transition to plant-based food the children are choosing something else.” (Food and service manager Many respondents claimed that it is a difficult task for a single school kitchen to educate about food literacy and break prevailing norms Replacing animal protein with plant-based protein was mentioned as a particularly cumbersome challenge Several kitchens mentioned heavy resistance from students All the interviewed kitchens and producers stressed the importance of committed local politicians Representatives from the successful municipalities said that the politicians' clarity and long-term perspective have been decisive The two municipalities that have not succeeded in the shift to a menu with a lower carbon footprint both claimed that the absence of goals and support from politicians means that the responsibility of transition ends up in the hands of individual procurers and buyers Sweden is a decentralized country where municipalities have a large possibility for self-determination How the municipalities choose to implement the Paris Agreement is therefore highly varying The interviewed kitchens and purchasing organizations all claim that it is partly difficult to interpret the implications of the Paris Agreement for their organization It was also highlighted that that the study toward a decarbonized food system largely depends on the willingness of the ruling politicians and their attitude toward sustainability issues One of the interviewed municipalities had no sustainability goals at all; hence the kitchen staff tried to implement sustainability goals voluntarily in addition to fulfilling the goal of municipality “We live in a ‘meat-municipality.' If we look at the global goals and raise them within the municipality board to bring in more vegetables.” (Director of Nutrition Swedish legislation is often perceived as an obstacle by procurers who aspire to promote decarbonization in the local food systems It was a general opinion among the interviewees that Swedish legislation makes local purchases difficult or even impossible Producers and successful municipalities alike expressed that they believed that the reason they succeed in buying/selling; e.g. local food is because they have decided to bypass the Swedish Law on Public Procurement (LOU) Bypassing the law may mean buying living animals owning a high school that produces its own food for the municipality or being more involved in the procurement than what is typical Municipality 3 have introduced a completely new procurement procedure to be able to purchase locally produced meat for its kitchens the municipality bought 24 cows whose meat will eventually be consumed in the elderly care and schools from the procurer to the kitchen and the producer different kinds of frustrations were expressed “The legislation concerning public procurement discourages all forms of small producers The legislation goes against the entire Swedish production because Swedish farmers and producers must compete with imported products that we would have been jailed if we had produced in the same way.” (Business owner the most important thing we can do is promote changes in the procurement policy We need new legislation that allows a different type of purchasing We take risks to be able to make the purchases we do.” (Food- and service manager “The Swedish Law on Public Procurement (LOU) and Swedish food strategy counteract each other.” (Business owner they have been implementing a project since 2005 called “reclaimed” which is a political endeavor that aims to bring back local agriculture They also own their high school for Natural resources where the students produce meat and vegetables and the municipality does not have to take LOU into account for food delivered from that school representatives from Municipality 4 mentioned LOU to be an impediment to procuring food outside of their own production “The Swedish Law on Public Procurement (LOU) makes it difficult for us We cannot say that we want local vegetables or meat you must set the requirements according to what you want and the preparatory work is extremely important a good dialogue with the producers so that you succeed in finding the specific uniqueness that allows us to make the right demands and that we get exactly the local product we want.” (Director of Nutrition Municipality 1 have procured Highland Cattle with the purpose to maintain meadow ecosystems the animals can be slaughtered and delivered to local kitchens without breaking the LOU They expressed that the key was to purchase their own animals for another purpose than food “If the procuring municipalities had followed laws and regulations to 100% we would not have been able to participate in the procurement process The municipality and the politicians' willingness to invest in local food has been decisive for us as suppliers.” (Business owner “The biggest problem is that in public procurement it is allowed to buy in products from abroad that are not produced in accordance with Swedish legislation (—) Why is it allowed to import goods today that we can produce in Sweden We still have other rules for the use of chemicals in Sweden which we must produce at the same price as in other countries.” (Business owner The last strategic area was infrastructure and process food were mentioned as a prerequisite for a decarbonized procurement and the absence of one part of that chain may be a serious obstacle according to both the producers and the kitchens the responsibility of the entire food handling infrastructure is largely transferred to producers and individual kitchens that this is an unreasonable burden that is also ineffective and very costly for society All the successful municipalities mentioned that they have their own transport/storage infrastructure in place and that this has been significant to be able to procure food outside the big distributors A potato producer who was interviewed said that the prerequisite for them to be able to sign up as a supplier is that they manage the deliveries themselves to each address in the municipality that means that they need to deliver potatoes to 70 different addresses which entails a large overhead cost that needs to be applied to only one product in competition with the large distributors who spread these costs over hundreds of goods The municipalities that have been successful in bringing in local smaller producers have all chosen to invest in a municipal coordinated goods collection center all suppliers deliver to one address and the municipality itself manages the distribution to schools and homes for the elderly Several schools mentioned that the collection center in addition to the environmental- and cost-benefit also contributed to increased safety and a sounder work environment due to fewer means of transport to areas where there are children and less stress for employees Many kitchens also expressed that their ability to receive and handle alternative food has been greatly hampered by the fact that many kitchens today are only heating kitchens and lack cooking facilities the staff is limited to receiving pre-cooked food The responsibility to use ingredients with a low carbon footprint is thus moved from the kitchen to the distributors Staff density is also a limitation; one kitchen testified that they can only receive vacuum-packed minced meat as all other raw meat materials involve work that they do not have time for The same applies to vegetables; only processed vegetables can be handled due to lack of time in many kitchens “The specialization in public kitchens makes it difficult for “ordinary” producers to deliver their food as they are rarely refined to a sufficiently high extent vegetables that require processing (chopped One of the successful municipalities (Municipality 2) has made extensive changes in its kitchens to increase their opportunities to make use of whole foods and reduce waste they have been adapted so that larger kitchens have been given meat grinders and bread-slicing machines they have chosen to rebuild the heating kitchen into a cooking kitchen the municipality mostly have cooking kitchens they have invested in more cooling cabinets Unprocessed red meat was responsible for 44% of the total GHG emissions in Härnösand although they only constitute 6% of purchased food kilograms suggesting that a reduction in servings of red meat would be an appropriate way to start the transition toward a decarbonized diet It is noteworthy that none of the two alternative climate mitigation scenarios that were compatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement (“flexitarian free from red meat” and “zero red meat scenario”) are strictly vegetarian they are flexitarian diets without red meat If Härnösand were to stop serving red meat emissions would decrease significantly but as a single school or local area departing from the current societal norm around food such a measure would be difficult to implement There are examples of municipalities that have tried to serve more plant-based food but have been forced to back down due to pressure from students and parents Härnösand (among many other municipalities in Sweden) offers a plant-based option to its students every day the students rarely chose that option with increased food waste as a potential consequence and a clear alignment of interests and strategies from the national toward the local levels in order to achieve local disruptions toward sustainable food transition Although Sweden is among the few countries that have mentioned climate considerations and the relative impact of various food groups in its national dietary guidelines (NDG) (2) the Swedish NDGs do not consider the environmental impacts in their dietary recommendations Swedish politicians are often reluctant to take a stand on the issue of dietary changes Sweden's then Minister of Rural Development said “I do not want to police what should be on the Swedes' breakfast or dinner table” and added that: “Swedish politics should stay away from the Swedish kitchen.” Sven-Erik Bucht, Minister of Rural Development 2016 (38) This view on Swedish eating habits seems to endure among the first-level executive bodies During the revision of the Swedish current food strategy Sweden's current Minister of Rural Development claimed “I do not intend to interfere with people's eating habits if you eat meat once a week or every day.” Peter Kullgren, Minister of Rural Development 2023 (39) Without operational national goals in terms of how to catalyze the necessary changes in the food system (including dietary changes) it seems unrealistic to expect that municipalities will bring about the required transformation based on voluntary commitments and within the current budgets Without a national common stance on how to transform the food system the progression toward diets with carbon footprints in line with the commitments of the Paris Agreement is likely to be slow Change agents and policymakers may promote individual decisions and behaviors toward a more sustainable food system changes in food production practices or a radical dietary change One argument that often recurs in municipal operations is insufficient funding just like any other municipal organization and more sustainable alternatives are often associated with high costs Municipality 3 testifies that their costs have not increased due to the fact that they use all parts from the animals in their cooking An interesting continuation of this project would be to study the social benefits of increasing local production instead of assuming that sustainable food is associated with high costs could there be benefits to reshaping the food systems How many jobs could potentially be created is it possible to estimate a scenario where the municipality of Härnösand would purchase These are questions that such a study could address Considering that the current global food system is the largest pressure caused by humans on the earth's ecosystems and that up to 34% of our GHG emissions today can be traced to our food systems (primarily to the food of animal origin) dietary changes are an efficient way to reduce negative environmental impact The public sector holds a strong transformative power in terms of catalyzing this change and this study points out some alternative scenarios for the menu composition that would considerably decrease its currently high carbon footprint This study shows that changing the procurement processes by altering 6% of the total purchased food kilograms GHG emissions reductions as high as 44% could be obtained There are many obstacles for such a change in the menu composition to materialize The results indicate that the Swedish Law on Public Procurement (LOU) and local politicians' reluctance to change are the principal impediments perceived by the interviewees The respondents stressed that the policy change in Sweden needs to be coordinated from a higher organizational level but that there are also opportunities for individual municipalities to take certain measures Political decisions about the decarbonization of the food systems willingness to invest in logistics centers or other ways to help solve the issue of food logistics were highlighted as important first steps To explore the issue of promoting public procurement as a lever for changes in the food system further studies on National food policy issues and the social benefits of increasing local production in Sweden are recommended The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors Writing – review & editing The author(s) 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Genom att använda våra tjänster godkänner du att vi använder cookies The High Coast has been designated a World Heritage Site The High Coast (Höga Kusten) — The Ångermanland coast is the highest and steepest coast along the entire Baltic Here the sea literally meets the mountains During the last ice age the ice sheet of this area was maybe 3 kilometers thick and the earth´s crust was compressed and this isostatic uplift is still in progress on today This is the main reason why the High Coast has been designated a World Heritage Site The UNESCO decision to place Sweden's 'Höga Kusten' on the World Heritage List was based on a complex global comparative analysis the extraordinary natural phenomena of the landscape the High Coast's culture-historical value and the regional government's intention to eco-label the area In June 1998 the Swedish Government decided to nominate the High Coast in the county of Västernorrland for inclusion on the World Heritage List At the World Heritage Committee meeting in Marrakech in December 1999 the committee decided to defer the nomination The grounds were that the area's unique characteristics were not described in sufficient detail In April 2000 additional reports and information was sent to Unesco The new material had been jointly produced by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency the Västernorrland County Administrative Board the Central Board of National Antiquities and the Geological Survey of Sweden In the Committee's decision an analysis of the High Coast's characteristics as an area of land uplift in comparison with other similar areas of the world and a comparison with the Quark area was requested A brief summary of the global comparative study conducted showed - The High Coast has the highest isostatic land uplift in the world after the latest glaciation The relative land uplift is 285 metres above the present sea level A comparison with all land uplift areas in the world after the latest glaciation shows that the only comparable area is at Hudson Bay in Canada where the equivalent uplift is 272 metres The other areas with isostatic land uplift reach substantially lower levels within many of these areas the isostatic land uplift can be difficult to distinguish from tectonic uplift - Due to the undulating terrain the distance between the highest shoreline in the High Coast and its present shoreline is only approximately 2 km whereas at Hudson Bay the distance is roughly 50 km The land uplift's geological and biological impact is therefore exceptionally evident and concentrated in the High Coast while they are scattered and diffuse at Hudson Bay The rate of land uplift in the High Coast is presently 8 mm per annum - The High Coast is the finest site for the study and understanding of the important processes that formed the glaciated and land uplift areas of the earth's surface and which have decisive significance in the explanation of: - the distribution of various vegetation types above and below the highest shoreline - the current division of cultivated land and forestland in the countryside The High Coast is situated in a climatic area that permits a considerably wider spectrum of these conditions than Hudson Bay that is located in a permafrost region - The long-standing scientific studies of the High Coast mean that it is an area of global significance with respect to the interpretation of the geological as well as biological and culture-historical effects of the great inland ice sheets and land uplift Sign up for our daily Newsletter and stay up to date with all the latest news You are receiving this pop-up because this is the first time you are visiting our site You are using software which is blocking our advertisements (adblocker) we are relying on revenues from our banners So please disable your adblocker and reload the page to continue using this site.Thanks Five hours north of Stockholm lies an aquaponic farm that has spent decades perfecting its system and will soon be ready to distribute its systems to other growers Peckas Naturodlingar AB is located in Härnösand and was established nearly 25 years ago when founder Pecka Nygård witnessed the environmental impacts of fish farming and wanted to begin a land-based fish farm After reading about aquaponic systems developed in the United States Pecka saw the potential for such technology to create full-circle agricultural solutions The main fish species raised in conjunction with crop production were rainbow trout and tilapia while the company is currently evaluating perch as a viable aquaponic species When Daniel Brännström joined the company in 2013 he began considering how the system could be made more scalable and what the minimum viable size would be Without many greenhouses in the region to use as models Peckas Naturodlingar AB looked across the Gulf of Bothnia to Närpes which reportedly has 80 ha of greenhouses producing 60% of the cucumbers and tomatoes eaten in Finland the early half of these growers are winter farms thus are using supplemental lighting Närpes thus became a good model for Peckas Naturodlingar AB with respect to greenhouse management the company expanded and built a 13,500-m2 aquaponic greenhouse in Härnösand equipped with gravel-based growing beds and Gavita greenhouse lighting The greenhouse employs 30 people and produces cucumbers and fish which have been delivered to stores since 2018 Peckas Naturodlingar AB produces 600 tonnes of vegetables and 60 tonnes of fish per year Whereas most greenhouses using Rockwool as a substrate and irrigate in multiple intervals Peckas Naturodlingar AB grows in gravel beds and allows the water to run through continuously “Peckas tested tomatoes and cucumber in different media the yields weren’t as high as when they were grown in gravel So we needed to use tomato varieties that worked well both under lights and in gravel you have a living bio-bed of microorganisms and small worms Production in an aquaponic system means that the plants are fertilized with nutrient-rich water from the fish basins the plant roots are also filtering the water before it returns to the basin it will produce 1 kg of fish and 10-12 kg of vegetables provided all of the nutrients are completely used extract the nutrients and add that to the solution as well,” says Daniel One of the challenges to combining fish and vegetable production is needing to manage both crop production and fish rearing simultaneously This is particularly true for pH management with plants preferring a slightly low pH while fish prefer a slightly high pH always push the pH higher Peckas has developed its Peckas Intelligent Control System or PICS PICA will also be a part of Peckas Naturodlingar AB’s marketed aquaponic system which will be sold through Peckas Solutions Peckas Solutions plans to have its systems available for purchase by the summer and will first target Sweden Peckas Solutions envisions building its farms near local grocery stores so that consumers can see the system and purchase hyperfresh products Peckas Compact (photo below) was designed for exactly this We need more fish in our diets but cannot keep getting it from the ocean So how can we do that in an environmentally friendly way?” says Daniel For more information:Peckas Solutionshttps://peckassolutions.se/  FreshPublishers © 2005-2025 HortiDaily.com SUPPORT OUR JOURNALISM: Please consider donating to keep our website running and free for all - thank you The King and Queen of Sweden have visited Västernorrland county to show their support for communities in the area as the global health crisis continues The royal couple were welcomed to the county and to the residence in Härnösand by Governor Berit Högman told the royals about how the pandemic has affected the region and about the challenges and lessons that the pandemic has brought the King and Queen visited Koltrasten’s special accommodation for older people The staff spoke about the activities available there and how the challenges that the pandemic brought with it affected the work and the residents One of the topics discussed during the visit was the pandemic’s impact on the county’s cultural scene Norrland’s dance company told about the change that the company made during the pandemic and about how they offered such corona-safe cultural events The royal couple then visited the Castor restaurant for lunch teachers and students at the local high school talking about the impact of the pandemic on the school about the work of student health during the pandemic and about creating faith in the future among the students lunch was served and prepared by Year 3 students the royal couple visited Härnösand’s business unit where business leaders told about the pandemic’s impact on the county’s economy and the municipality’s various support measures for companies representatives from three companies and three industries talked about their perspectives on the pandemic The day ended at the Midlanda airport in Timrå municipality where the royal visitors held a meeting with Christina Thonman operations manager at Söråkers Folkets hus rector of Mid Sweden University and Annelie Ringbro about the pandemic’s consequences for integration The royal couple then visited the exhibition “The Meaning of a Job” where six of the people portrayed in the exhibition shared their stories