TY - JOUR
T1 - Fostering sustainable feedstock production for advanced biofuels on underutilised land in Europe
AU - Mergner, Rita
AU - Janssen, Rainer
AU - Rutz, Dominik
AU - Gyuris, Peter
AU - Ceylan, Ömer
AU - Colangeli, Marco
AU - Traverso, Lorenzo
AU - Mule, Mariella
AU - Bonati, Guido
AU - Pulighe, Giuseppe
AU - Kovach, Valeriia
AU - Haidai, Olha
AU - Geletukha, Georgiy
AU - Ion, Nicoleta
AU - Tantareanu, Cristian
AU - Köhler, Raul
AU - Knoche, Dirk
AU - Rogulska, Magdalena
AU - Grzybek, Anna
AU - Tack, Jurgen
AU - Budniok, Marie Alice
AU - Leahy, J. J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, ETA-Florence Renewable Energies. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - In a context of growing competition between land uses, bioenergy development is often seen as one of the possible contributors to such competition. However, there are areas which are not used or cannot be used for the production of food and feed. This is the case of contaminated land, land unsuitable for the production of food or feed, set-aside lands and fallow lands etc. Several EU and Associated countries have relevant surfaces of land that are currently largely under-utilized for a number of reasons. Bioenergy crops have the potential to be grown profitably on these lands and can therefore offer a source of income to local actors while contributing to achieving the targets of the Renewable Energy Directive (EC/2009). This is the case of contaminated sites in Italy and Germany, where industrial and mining activities have affected the quality of the soils in specific areas and have impacted the possibility to carry out traditional agriculture. As a consequence, local farmers are often left without a source of income and the environmental quality of the contaminated areas degrades. Not only soils, but often also water resources are impacted by the presence of contaminants which in turn may be reflected on the health of local populations. In addition, in Ukraine large extents of land are left uncultivated and vast areas of the country are unexploited because of low demand for agricultural products. Bioenergy offers an alternative productive use on underutilized lands, where the biomass is not used for food or feed production, but for energy purposes. The objective of the FORBIO project, funded by the EU’s Horizon2020 programme, is to support the implementation of sustainable feedstock production for biofuels on underutilised land in Europe.
AB - In a context of growing competition between land uses, bioenergy development is often seen as one of the possible contributors to such competition. However, there are areas which are not used or cannot be used for the production of food and feed. This is the case of contaminated land, land unsuitable for the production of food or feed, set-aside lands and fallow lands etc. Several EU and Associated countries have relevant surfaces of land that are currently largely under-utilized for a number of reasons. Bioenergy crops have the potential to be grown profitably on these lands and can therefore offer a source of income to local actors while contributing to achieving the targets of the Renewable Energy Directive (EC/2009). This is the case of contaminated sites in Italy and Germany, where industrial and mining activities have affected the quality of the soils in specific areas and have impacted the possibility to carry out traditional agriculture. As a consequence, local farmers are often left without a source of income and the environmental quality of the contaminated areas degrades. Not only soils, but often also water resources are impacted by the presence of contaminants which in turn may be reflected on the health of local populations. In addition, in Ukraine large extents of land are left uncultivated and vast areas of the country are unexploited because of low demand for agricultural products. Bioenergy offers an alternative productive use on underutilized lands, where the biomass is not used for food or feed production, but for energy purposes. The objective of the FORBIO project, funded by the EU’s Horizon2020 programme, is to support the implementation of sustainable feedstock production for biofuels on underutilised land in Europe.
KW - Biofuels
KW - Biomass
KW - Marginal land
KW - Sustainability
KW - Underutilised land
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85043760049&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85043760049
SN - 2282-5819
VL - 2017
SP - 125
EP - 130
JO - European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings
JF - European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings
IS - 25thEUBCE
ER -