The Danish Food Park That Wants to Nourish the World

More than nine billion people will need access to fresh food by 2050, and two-thirds of them will live in cities. With such a situation looming, it’s not surprising that researchers across the globe are working on food innovation and sustainable urban farming, from edible insect stations for Stockholm’s major intersections to crops grown underground in one of London’s WWII-era air raid shelters.

Agro Food Park in Denmark wants to be the epicenter of this research. Founded in 2009 outside Aarhus, the country’s second-largest city, its 460,000-square-foot campus currently houses around 80 organizations and their 1,000 employees. The outfits are both large and small, public and private, Danish and multinational, and they focus on various elements of agriculture, with expertise including flavor and bacteria.