ABSTRACT
In the northern Swedish region of Jamtland traditional forms of local food production are being revitalised through a project for small-scale food production and refining. This project for small-scale refining of food in the handicrafts tradition is today under implementation by a national resource centre known as Eldrimner. The analysis is based on the results of a case study in the CORASON European research project, and raises the question of how local food production and consumption can be maintained in a modernised agro-food system. The Eldrimner project is located in Jmtland in the northern part of Sweden, a remote and sparsely populated region adjacent to the Norwegian border. The population is dispersed over a vast area with only one major city, stersund. The region has a small ethnic community of Sami people, who continue their cultural tradition of reindeer herding in the mountain area on the borders between Norway and Sweden.
