European Non-Food Agriculture Introduction Uwe Schneider Research 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 Germany Netherlands 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 2x Food WP 4x Forestry WP 5x Environmental impacts WP3x 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