about us

The NOMAD Indigenous FoodLab is a collaboration between World Reindeer Herders (WRH), International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR) in Norway, and Danish partners Søren K. Kristiansen ApS, the late architect Klaus Schmidt-Hansen of KSH ApS, and Bakkely ApS. 

World Reindeer Herders (WRH) is the Civil-Society Organization for indigenous reindeer herders, as the nomadic indigenous peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic region. There are 24 different indigenous reindeer herding peoples in the world today, spread over three continents and 10 national states across the circumpolar north, with close to 100 000 people including all. These peoples are living as nomads and semi-nomads in the cold north, following their reindeer through their annual migration patterns. 

International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry (ICR) is an independent knowledge institution established on recommendation of the Arctic Council, organized as a Norwegian State Entity with a Special Authority. It has its main office in Guovdageaidnu in Arctic Norway, and offices at the FRAM centre in Tromsø, Norway, and in Ulaanbaatar and Tsaagaanuur in Mongolia.