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European Non-Food Agriculture Introduction Uwe Schneider Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change Hamburg University 23 April 2008
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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
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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"
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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
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True Costs of Non-food products? Direct costs Opportunity costs External costs –Welfare distribution –Environmental qualities –Food security –Energy security
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13 ENFA Partners Poland Sweden Ireland France Greece Germany Netherlands Austria Wales
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ENFA Advisory Board Petr Havlik, IIASA Mac Callaway, UNEP Maarit Kallio, Metla Sonja Peterson, IfW Kiel Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M Marie Walsh, Oakridge
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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Results Microeconomic analysis of individual non- food supply chains Establishment of a bottom-up, dynamic, macro-economic land use model ENFA-model = EUFASOM
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