Marginal lands and industrial crops for the European bioeconomy
Combining bio-based products, climate resilience and biodiversity through innovative agricultural value chains.
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Supporting the European Bioeconomy
The transition to a bio-based economy requires a sustainable supply of biomass, while ensuring food security and respecting our environment.
Climate-resilient industrial crops grown on marginal agricultural land can provide sustainable biomass for the European bioeconomy, without reducing the land available for food, while enhancing soil health and protecting biodiversity.
MIDAS is a Horizon Europe project that aims to:
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Map and characterize marginal land in Europe for low-ILUC biomass production
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Grow industrial crops on marginal land with climate-resilient and biodiversity-compatible systems
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Produce sustainable biomass feedstock additional to food production
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Build value chains and develop business for innovative bio-based products
Bio-based value chains
MIDAS adopts a resource-efficient biorefinery concept to develop innovative value chains for a wide range of bio-products.
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Protecting soil health and biodiversity
The use of selected industrial crops and the adoption of innovative cropping systems protect pollinators, enhance biodiversity at landscape level, remove carbon from the atmosphere and reduce soil erosion.
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Europe's Marginal Lands
In this StoryMap we explain
how we define and mapped marginal lands for the current (2020) situation and for
the future (2050).
Supporting the European Green Deal
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Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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News
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A visit to the MIDAS agroforestry site in Rome
26 July 2024
Last week, we visited the MIDAS demo field in Monterotondo, near Rome, which hosts a unique agroforestry system. This experimental site, located within CREA-IT facilities,
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Expert workshop on environmental sustainability of crops for bio-based products
25 July 2024
An expert workshop on environmental sustainability of agricultural crops for bio-based industries in Europe was held last June in Marseille, France, as a side event
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MIDAS Bioeconomy Business Tutorial Series: Preparing your Business Plan
19 July 2024
The MIDAS project continues its commitment to empowering bioeconomy entrepreneurs with the release of the second video in its 10-part tutorial series. This installment delves