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