Food security is considered a matter of national security in Norway.
Perfect timing, as Norway is currently gearing up for the celebration of 200 years since the Norwegian constitution.... which was preceded by years of famine due to a British naval blockade (Norway was dragged into the Napoleonic wars due to Denmark, so the British blockaded our ports for 5 years)
It is something that is well remembered, in particularly thanks to the poem Terje Vigen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terje_Vigen) by Henrik Ibsen, about a man who tried to run the blockade in a rowboat to smuggle food for his starving family from Denmark, only to be imprisoned by the British and upon his release in 1814 finding his family had died.
It's a poem that is central to teaching of Norwegian literature in schools, and also often brought up in history classes, including in primary school.
Perfect timing, as Norway is currently gearing up for the celebration of 200 years since the Norwegian constitution.... which was preceded by years of famine due to a British naval blockade (Norway was dragged into the Napoleonic wars due to Denmark, so the British blockaded our ports for 5 years)
It is something that is well remembered, in particularly thanks to the poem Terje Vigen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terje_Vigen) by Henrik Ibsen, about a man who tried to run the blockade in a rowboat to smuggle food for his starving family from Denmark, only to be imprisoned by the British and upon his release in 1814 finding his family had died.
It's a poem that is central to teaching of Norwegian literature in schools, and also often brought up in history classes, including in primary school.