Sustainable exploitation of biomass for bioenergy from marginal lands in Europe

Final report on socio-economic assessment; SEEMLA project reports, supported by the EU’s H2020 under GA No. 691874, IFEU - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, 2018

Autor*innen: Heiko Keller, Nils Rettenmaier, Guido Reinhardt

The aim of the Horizon 2020-funded 'Sustainable exploitation of biomass for bioenergy from marginal lands in Europe' (SEEMLA) project is the reliable and sustainable exploitation of biomass from marginal lands (MagL), which are used neither for food nor feed production and are not posing an environmental threat. The projectfocusses on three main objectives: - the promotion of re-conversion of marginal lands for the production of bioenergy through the direct involvement of farmers and foresters - the strengthening of local small-scale supply chains - the promotion of plantations of bioenergy plants on marginal lands The expected impacts are: Increasing the production of bioenergy, famers’ incomes, investments in new technologies and the design of new policy measures. FNR will coordinate the project with its eight partners from Ukraine, Greece, Italy and others from Germany.