Marginal lands and industrial crops for the European bioeconomy
Combining bio-based products, climate resilience and biodiversity through innovative agricultural value chains.
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:
Map and characterize marginal land in Europe for low-ILUC biomass production
Grow industrial crops on marginal land with climate-resilient and biodiversity-compatible systems
Produce sustainable biomass feedstock additional to food production
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.
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.
Supporting the European Green Deal
Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Developing a sub water retention system to grow industrial crops in marginal land in Southern Europe
28 June 2023
One of the objectives of MIDAS is to optimize selected non-edible crops to be adapted for growing in marginal agricultural lands. This can be achieved
Marginal lands and industrial crops for the European bioeconomy
27 February 2023
A new Horizon Europe project connects bio-based products, climate resilience and biodiversity protection, through innovative agricultural value chains deployed in marginal land.
