In a recent interview with the agricultural paper Bændablaðið, Gústav Magnús Ásbjörnsson, Head of Department for Ecological Restoration at Land and Forest Iceland, told that currently around four hundred farmers are active in land reclamation projects in cooperation with the agency. Gústav says that the connections and knowledge yielded by the land reclamation cooperation with farmers are beneficial for all land reclamation efforts in Iceland.