This webinar aims to showcase how innovative, farm-scale agroforestry systems can transform underutilised European landscapes into productive hubs for the bioeconomy. By integrating woody crops like poplar and Siberian elm with resilient annual industrial crops such as hemp, safflower, and crambe, the MIDAS project is validating farming systems that can increase crops resilience to challenging soil and environmental conditions while producing feedstock for bio-based products.

The webinar will be a deep dive into MIDAS demo sites across diverse climatic zones in Europe, participants will gain insights into the preliminary results of these systems, focusing on their capacity to strengthen ecosystem services—such as soil erosion mitigation and biodiversity enhancement—while ensuring economic viability and climate resilience for European farmers.

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Agenda

13.45 – Introduction

Maurizio Cocchi, Etaflorence

Increasing resilience with innovative cropping systems in marginal land: introduction to MIDAS demo sites

Efthymia Alexopoulou, CRES

Integration of short-rotation poplar and oil crops in Italy for biomass and bio-based products

Simone Bergonzoli – CREA-IT

Agroforestry trials using Siberian elm and lavender alongside annual rotating crops in North Spain

Luis Saul Esteban – CIEMAT

Synergies between biomass poplar and perennial grass mixtures for bioeconomy in Poland

Mateusz Ciasnocha – European Carbon Farmers

Integrating poplar and miscanthus with fibre and oilseed crops in Hungary

Zoltan Hajdu  – Soltub

14.40 – Scaling up agroforestry for regenerative agriculture and the bioeconomy

Constantin Muraru – European Agroforestry Federation

Discussion

15.10 end