The agricultural sector is facing a paradigm shift. Danish high-tech agriculture can show the world how a pervasive transformation of the industry can reform food production and, at the same time, tackle the crises facing the world. The transformation is all down to something as basic as what we grow on fields, and we may have to get used to the sight of green fields instead of yellow in late summer.

Legumes can make agriculture greener, both by carbon fixing, but more specifically because they do not need artificial fertilizers supplying nitrogen, and because their seeds have an advantageous composition of amino acids. A large, European research project focuses on faba beans, which have the potential to become an important part of Danish agriculture.

A large part of the world's population has fragments of neanderthal genes in their DNA. The length of these fragments provides new insight into how human populations have evolved differently in recent history. A Danish-German research team has found fluctuations of 10-20 per cent in the average age of new parents throughout Eurasia over the past 40,000 years.