Policies for the Future of Farming and Food in Norway

Acronyms

Acronym or title	English title
AIS	Agricultural Innovation System
AMR	Antimicrobial resistance
BAA	Basic Agricultural Agreement
BERD	Business expenditure on research and development
BIOTEK2021	Large-scale Programme on Biotechnology for Innovation
CAP	European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy
CBD	Convention on Biological Diversity
CCS	Carbon capture and storage
CFP	European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy
CH4	Methane
CO2	Carbon dioxide
COVID-19	Coronavirus
CRI	Centre for Research-based Innovation
Crop Trust	Global Crop Diversity Trust
DSB	Norwegian Directorate for Social Security and Preparedness
eCorda	Common Research Datawarehouse of the European Commission
EEA	European Economic Area
EFTA	European Free Trade Association
ENERGIX	Large-scale Programme for Energy Research
ESVAC	European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption
ETS	Emission Trading System
EU	European Union
FACCE	Food security, agriculture and climate change (JPI)
FDI	Foreign Direct Investment
FFL	Foundation for Research Levy on Agricultural Products
FHF	Norwegian Seafood Research Fund
FP7	EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research
FTA	Free Trade Agreement
GBARD	Government budget allocation on R&D
GCE	Global Centres of Expertise
GCI	Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum
GDP	Gross domestic product
GEM	Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
GERD	Gross domestic expenditure on research and development
GHG	Greenhouse gas
GSSE	General Services Support Estimate
GVA	Gross value added
ICT	Information and Communication Technology
IN	Innovation Norway
IP	Intellectual property
IPC	International Patent Classification
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ITPGRFA	Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
JA	Agriculture Agreement funds
JPI	EU Joint Programming Initiatives
KSL	Quality system
HDHL	Healthy diet for a healthy life (JPI)
HE	Higher education
HWP	Harvested wood products
LEIT	Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies
LMD	Ministry of Agriculture and Food
LTP	Long Term Plan for Research and Higher Education
LULUCF	Land Use and Land Use Change and Forestry
MNF tariff	Most-favoured-nation tariff. Normal non-discriminatory tariff charged on imports (excludes preferential tariffs under free trade agreements and other schemes or tariffs charged inside quotas)
N	Nitrogen
N2O	Nitrous oxide
NAA	Norwegian Agriculture Agency
NACE	Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community
NAP	Norwegian cross-sectoral National Action Plan
NAP	National Agri-environmental Programme
NCE	Norwegian Centres of Expertise
NCO	Non-commodity output
NDC	Nationally determined contribution
NFI	National Forest Inventory
NFSA	Norwegian Food Safety Authority
NHO	Norwegian Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise
NIBIO	Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
NIC	Norwegian Innovation Clusters
NIFU	Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education
NKJ	Nordic Committee for Research in Agriculture and Food
NLR	Norwegian Agricultural Extension Service
NMBU	Norwegian University of Life Sciences
NordGen	Nordic Genetic Resources Centre
NORM	Norwegian monitoring system for antibiotic resistance in microbes in human pathogens
NORM-VET	Norwegian monitoring programme for antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from feed, food and animals
NRF	Norwegian Red
NTNU	Norwegian University of Science and Technology
NVH	Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
P	Phosphorus
PCT	Patent Co-operation Treaty
PEM	Policy Evaluation Model
PISA	OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
PMR	OECD Product Market Regulation Indicators
PRESIS	NIBIO’s precision agriculture in practice project
PSE	Producer Support Estimate
%PSE	PSE transfers as a share of grossfarm receipts (including support in the denominator)
PSR	OECD Productivity, Sustainability and Resilience Framework
RCN	Provide Research Council of Norway
R&D&I	Research, development and innovation
REP	Regional Agri-environmental Programmes
Ruralis	Institute for Rural Regional Research
SC	Societal Challenge
SFI	Centres for Research-based Innovation
Siva	Industrial Development Co-operation of Norway
SLF	Swedish Farmers’ Foundation for Agricultural Research
SMEs	Small and medium-sized enterprises
SMIL	Specialised measures in agriculture
SNS	Nordic Forest Research
SPS	Sanitary and phytosanitary measures (non-tariff barriers to trade)
SPS	Strong sustainable productivity
SPSS	Semi-strong sustainable productivity
SPW	Weak sustainable productivity
TBT	Technical barriers to trade measures (non-tariff barriers to trade)
TFC	Total Final Consumption
TFI	OECD Trade Facilitation Indicators
TFP	Total Factor Productivity
TPES	Total Primary Energy Supply
TQRs	Tariff-rate quotas
TSE	Total Support Estimate
TTO	Technology Transfer Offices
TVET	Technical and vocational and educational training
UMB	Norwegian University of Life Sciences
UNFCCC	UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
UN-REDD	United Nations Collaborative Program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
UPOV	International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
VAT	Value added tax
VI	Norwegian Veterinary Institute
WBIP	Wood-based innovation programmes
WEF	World Economic Forum
WFD	EU Water Framework Directive
WTO	World Trade Organization