Room: Auditorium 1
Date: Monday, 09 June 2025
Time: 17:30 - 18:30 CEST
Session code 1AO.7
Biomass potentials from marginal land and alternative cropping systems
Evaluating the Yield Potential and Suitability of Industrial Crops on Marginal Lands
Short Introductive summary
This paper aim to present findings from the MIDAS project on simulating the growth and the suitability of selected industrial crops on Europe marginal lands under current and future (2050) climate scenarios. Using the AquaCrop model, previously applied in the S2BIOM project, crop yield simulations were conducted at the NUTS3 spatial level across Europe. The initial modeling focused on crops with existing data, including Miscanthus, Switchgrass, Cardoon, Sorghum, Poplar, Giant Reed, Reed Canary Grass, Willow, and Eucalyptus but more crops a gradually added in MIDAS. As the phenological data for the other crops is becoming available, it is planned to integrate them into the model scripts. Yield maps are generated based on water-limited yields to assess regional crop viability under marginal conditions. The suitability assessment incorporates yield reduction levels for each crop when grown under marginal conditions. Yield reduction levels are assigned to each crop based on its response to natural constraints, which define marginal lands. These assignments were and are made by crop experts from the MAGIC and MIDAS project.
Presenter
Valentina JARA RÍOS
Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
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Co-authors:
B. Elbersen, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
M. van Eupen, Wageningen Environmental Research, THE NETHERLANDS
M. van Cossel, Biobased Products and Energy Crops, Institute of Crop Science, Stuttgart, GERMANY
E. Alexopoulou, Centre for Renewable Energy - CRES Biomass Department, Athens, GREECE
Session reference: 1AO.7.2