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Diversifying revenue in rural Africa through circular, sustainable and replicable bio-based solutions and business models

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Sostenere lo sviluppo della bioeconomia nell’Africa rurale

Dal momento che entro il 2050 l’Africa dovrà sfamare 2 miliardi di persone, la bioeconomia del continente deve svolgere un ruolo di primo piano per proteggere la sicurezza alimentare. Il progetto BIO4AFRICA, finanziato dall’UE, affronterà questa sfida, semplificando lo sviluppo della bioeconomia nell’Africa rurale grazie allo sviluppo di soluzioni e catene del valore circolari biocompatibili per promuovere l’uso di risorse locali e diversificare il reddito degli agricoltori. L’iniziativa sarà incentrata sul trasferimento di tecnologie biocompatibili semplici, affidabili e su piccola scala, adattate alla biomassa, alle esigenze e ai contesti locali. L’obiettivo del progetto è offrire agli agricoltori locali gli strumenti per produrre in maniera sostenibile energia e numerosi bioprodotti di valore maggiore, migliorando così notevolmente le prestazioni ambientali, economiche e sociali dei loro sistemi di foraggiamento e agro-alimentari.

Obiettivo

Africa will need to feed over 2 billion people by 2050 while coping with unprecedented demographic, socio-economic, environmental, climatic and health transitions. Meanwhile, undernourishment is still on the rise, affecting almost 20% of its population now. Under this light, ensuring Africa’s food security becomes imperative, with the bioeconomy posed to play a leading role to this end. It is against this backdrop that BIO4AFRICA sets off to support the deployment of the bioeconomy in rural Africa via the development of bio-based solutions and value chains with a circular approach to drive the cascading use of local resources and diversify the income of farmers. Our focus is on transferring simple, small-scale and robust bio-based technologies adapted to local biomass, needs and contexts (green biorefinery, pyrolysis, hydrothermal carbonisation, briquetting, pelletising, bio-composites and bioplastics production). In doing so we aim at empowering farmers to sustainably produce a variety of higher value bio-based products and energy (animal feed, fertiliser, pollutant absorbents, construction materials, packaging, solid fuel for cooking and catalysts for biogas production), significantly improving the environmental, economic and social performance of their forage agri-food systems. To this end, we have set up 4 pilot cases with over 8 testing sites in Uganda, Ghana, Senegal and Ivory Coast, offering more than 300 farmers and farmer groups of all sizes (incl. small dairy and lower-income farmers, women farmer groups and transhumant pastoralists among others) the opportunity to test them in real productive conditions. Along the way, our balanced mix of 13 African and 12 EU partners will engage in solid multi-actor collaboration with rural communities and government, co-developing novel sustainable value chains driven by circular business models and supporting deployment in other areas, all while safeguarding agronomic, environmental, social and economic sustainability.

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H2020-SFS-2018-2020

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H2020-SFS-2020-2

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RIA - Research and Innovation action

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CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LEDEVELOPPEMENT - C.I.R.A.D. EPIC
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 478 975,00
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RUE SCHEFFER 42
75016 Paris
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Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
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€ 1 478 975,00

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