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