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EUBCE 2021 - Yuri HERRERAS YAMBANIS - Sustainable Camelina Cultivation as a Catch Crop

Sustainable Camelina Cultivation as a Catch Crop

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Advances in Non-Food Crops Cultivation

Advances in Non-Food Crops Cultivation

Sustainable Camelina Cultivation as a Catch Crop

Short Introductive summary

Climate change contributes to drought occurrence, soil erosion and desertification. As a result, farmer profitability has dramatically decreased, with increased downside risk. This is a global situation: in Europe over 4 million farms were lost during 2005-2015 -this is more than 1,000 farms lost every day-, while in Australia in the last 20 years profit decreased 22%, with the chance of very low profits more than doubling. Catch crops are grown in unused arable land which would have otherwise been left fallow, between successive main crops. This way, replacing a fallow land period with a catch crop provides farmers with a new harvest and additional income. Additionally, catch crops also provide agronomic and environmental benefits, helping avoiding erosion, capturing nutrients, improving soil structure & benefiting biodiversity.

Presenter

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Yuri HERRERAS YAMBANIS

Camelina Company EspaƱa

Presenter's biography

As founder of Camelina Company, I have worked over the past 10 years in developing camelina as a sustainable feedstock for aviation biofuels, focusing on developing camelina to fit rotations as a catch crop or double crop, not impacting this way the farmer's main crop production.

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Co-authors:

Y.H. Yambanis, Camelina, SPAIN

Session reference: ICO.3.3