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European Non-Food Agriculture
Introduction
Uwe SchneiderResearch Unit Sustainability and Global Change
Hamburg University
23 April 2008
Sustainable management of Europe’s natural resources
Task 1: Non-Food Crops
1.2 Tools and assessment methods for sustainable agriculture and forestry
management
FP6: Policy-oriented research
Task 1: Non-Food Crops
• "use available research data"
• "evaluate the true market and economic prospects"
• "integrate non-food crop production with traditional food production systems"
• "assess the energy and environmental balance of non-food crops"
ENFA - Objectives
• To assess the competitive economic potentials and major environmental impacts of major non-food options in the European forest and agricultural sector
• To provide decision support to EU and international policymakers
True Costs of Non-food products?
• Direct costs
• Opportunity costs
• External costs– Welfare distribution– Environmental qualities– Food security– Energy security
13 ENFA Partners
Poland
Sweden
Ireland
France
Greece
GermanyNetherlands
Austria
Wales
ENFA Advisory Board
• Petr Havlik, IIASA
• Mac Callaway, UNEP
• Maarit Kallio, Metla
• Sonja Peterson, IfW Kiel
• Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M
• Marie Walsh, Oakridge
ENFA Links to Non-Food Projects
• European Miscanthus Improvement (EMI)• Switchgrass as an alternative energy crop
in Europe • Clear Views on Clean Fuels; Data,
Potentials, Scenarios, Markets and Trade of Biofuels (VIEWLS)
• Poplars - A multiple-use crop for European arable farmers
ENFA Links to Non-Food Projects
• Reed canary grass research project • Hemp as Raw Material for Novel Industrial
Applications • Southern Europe: BEAVER, ACE,
BIOCHAINS, ACICA, MULTISEES • Dissemination of results concerning the
integrated production and exploitation of biological materials for non-food uses (BioMatNet)
ENFA Links to GHG Projects
• Integrated Sink Enhancement Assessment (INSEA)
• Sources and sinks of greenhouse gases from managed European grasslands and mitigation strategies (GreenGrass)
• Multi-Source Inventory Methods for Quantifying Carbon Stocks and Stock Changes in European Forests (CarboInvent)
Non-food WP 2xFood WP 4xForestry WP 5x
Environmental impactsWP3x
ENFA Model WP 6x
Non-Food Potentials WP 7x
Project Management WP 1x
Results
• Microeconomic analysis of individual non-food supply chains
• Establishment of a bottom-up, dynamic, macro-economic land use model
• ENFA-model = EUFASOM