Background
The main objective of SustainFARM is to enhance agronomic, environmental and economic performance of integrated food and non-food production systems (IFNS) by optimizing productivity and valorizing woody components, residual wastes and co-pro-ducts. IFNS are systems in which trees, crops and livestock components are integrated in different ways at different scales(plot-field-farm).
The specific objectives are to:
To achieve this, SustainFARM has adopted an innovative case-study approach and will investigate the economic and environ-mental performance of the range of locally relevant IFNS across several agri-climatic zones of Europe and design innovative IFNS systems, which are resilient and climate-smart. To improve the cost-effectiveness, different means of valorising the residual and co-products (woody components and residual wet olive cake etc.) and for multiple uses (bedding material, compost, bioenergy etc.), have been demonstrated at two SME facilities in the UK and Italy.
he best practices and innovative methods have been synthesized into a decision support tool (DST) to enable informed decision making by farmers, advisory services and policy makers.
Coordinator:
Associate Professor Bhim Bahadur Ghaley
Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
Email: bbg@plen.ku.dk
Project partners:
Total funding: 1.751.000 €