Room: Auditorium 1
Date: Monday, 09 June 2025
Time: 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Session code AP.1
Biomass availability perspectives for bioenergy and bioeconomy
Can Agriculture in 2050 Source Enough Biomass for the Bioeconomy?
Short Introductive summary
This study was executed in a service contract with DG-Agriculture and generated many insights in how agricultural land use has evolved in the EU27 over the last 30 years and how it can evolve in the next 30 years. Agricultural land was analyzed in relation to changes in use and land management, competition, and, synergies of agriculture with other land use sectors and also between food, feed, energy, and non-food biomass production. In this contribution we will focus on presenting the future land use developments in the context of the Green Deal (GD) and the Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, in relation to where synergies and trade-offs can be reached between sustainable agriculture and biomass production for the bioeconomy. For 2050 it is expected that farmland area loss can be limited with active policy interventions to reach the GD/F2F goals. However, if no active policy interventions take place, the decline of farmland will be more than 8 million hectares. The study illustrates how multiple GD/F2F targets can be achieved through implementation of effective territorial policy instruments.
Presenter
Berien ELBERSEN
Wageningen Environmental Research, Earth Informatics Dpt., THE NETHERLANDS
Presenter's biography
Dr. Berien Elbersen, Senior Research Scientist and project coordinator with 18 years of experience in European projects in the field of sustainable biomass use for non-food purposes Recent projects: Biomass Policies, S2BIOM, Carbon Impacts (DG-ENER), ILUC-review (DG-ENER), BECOOL & MAGIC.
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Co-authors:
T. Ceccarelli, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
M. van Eupen, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
C. van Haren, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
M. Koper, Guidehouse, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
S. Peeters, Guidehouse, Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
G. Toop, Guidehouse, Londen, UNITED KINGDOM
G. Hazeu, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
L. Salvati, MEDES, Pizza, ITALY
I. Staritsky, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
J. Snethlage, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
S. Verzandvoort, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
H. Boogaart, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
Session reference: AP.1.1