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UNLOCKING EFFICIENT BIO-BASED FERTILISERS FOR SOIL SUSTAINABILITY FROM UNDERUTILISED SIDE STREAMS

Project description

Transforming waste for the agrifood industry

Europe faces significant challenges in managing waste from the agrifood industry, forestry and urban areas. Inefficient waste handling leads to environmental pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and depletion of natural resources. Additionally, traditional fertilisers contribute to soil degradation and water contamination. There is an urgent need for sustainable solutions to convert waste into valuable resources. The EU-funded LANDFEED project aims to tackle this by creating value from underutilised waste through circular and local solutions. By converting waste into innovative biofertilisers, LANDFEED will enhance Europe’s self-sufficiency and reduce environmental impacts. Demonstrator sites across Europe will showcase these technologies, promoting soil health and biodiversity. LANDFEED’s business model will ensure these solutions are replicable and implementable across the continent.

Objective

LANDFEED will focus on creating value from under-utilised waste from the agro-food industry, forestry, urban and natural waste, implementing circular and local solutions that allow waste to be valorised by placing it in a circular framework, and producing innovative biofertilisers to improve Europe's self-sufficiency. In addition to optimising and implementing innovative nutrient recovery technologies, work will be carried out on a new generation of coatings for these bio-based fertilisers, capable of improving their efficiency through controlled nutrient release mechanisms. In this way LANDFEED will contribute to a better management of the fertiliser provided, we will contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions and a reduced impact on the environment's water resources. LANDFEED will ensure that the solutions and results of the project are locally driven through the different use cases. The use cases will consider all links in the value chain that will participate as lighthouses, serving as demonstrators and disseminators of the technologies, results and applications developed during the project.
These use cases will also contribute to the objectives of the Soil Strategy by enabling the restoration of soil health through the enhancement of its specific and functional biodiversity.
At the global level, the business model will be defined in its entirety, with the aim of maximising the replicability of these Use Cases and facilitating their implementation in other European areas and regions.

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HORIZON-JU-IA - HORIZON JU Innovation Actions

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023

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Coordinator

NEIKER-INSTITUTO VASCO DE INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO AGRARIO SA
Net EU contribution

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€ 692 208,00
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BERREAGA KALEA 1
48160 Vizcaya
Spain

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Noreste País Vasco Bizkaia
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€ 940 500,00

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