Project description
Paludiculture for sustainable agriculture in wetlands
Paludiculture is a form of wet agriculture that integrates the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands through water-table management with continued land use and biomass production in wetlands. The EU-funded PALUS DEMOS project will create three large-scale demonstration sites for paludiculture across three strategically chosen European countries to explore new agricultural business models, develop markets for paludiculture products, increase employment, and enhance biodiversity and water quality, aligning with the European Green Deal. The project will inspire various stakeholders by showing how paludiculture can preserve peat soils, provide economic opportunities, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It will use a bottom-up approach, create sustainable practices at these sites, stimulate the market, and provide policy recommendations to address potential challenges.
Objective
PALUS DEMOS will establish 3 large scale paludiculture demonstration sites to provide insights in new agricultural business models, increased employment, and improved biodiversity and water quality in line with the objectives of the EU Green Deal. PALUS DEMOS will inspire entrepreneurs in agriculture, biobased manufacturing industry, communities, politicians, water and nature organisations and many others, that paludiculture will provide a new direction to preserve peat pastures, carbon stores and reduce GHG emissions. The proposed bottom-up approach (agriculture feeds science) is an opportunity that can improve social, economic and environmental sustainability, offering a future-proof model for agricultural entrepreneurs. Our demonstrators will act as lighthouses or beacons for local stakeholders and others from right across Europe & beyond. The focus of these demonstrators, supported by many of Europes leading experts, is to develop a range of best practices and land uses in strategic locations in three European countries ideally placed to spearhead the establishment of paludiculture practice and markets across Europe in a climate smart farming way. Beyond state of the art, we will establish co-created sustainable paludiculture practices at each of the three demonstrators. This will be fully supported by policy recommendations identifying enablers, barriers and policy gaps. We will work with stakeholders to develop (socio-)economic models using the quadruple helix innovation system, including government, industry, academia, and society. Our work will be supported by the development of long term business plans, it will include end users of the produced biomass and will be supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools co-created with stakeholders leading us towards an evidence based policy approach to paludiculture innovation.
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- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
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Participants (25)
M15 6BX MANCHESTER
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1135RD EDAM
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4 Dublin
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1170 Wien
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5038 JL Tilburg
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A94 AY75 DUBLIN
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W12XR59 NEWBRIDGE
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K36 R578 Dublin
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N37XP52 ATHLONE
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H91 CD45 LETTERFRACK, GALWAY
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D03 N2V4 DUBLIN
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L3 5UX Liverpool
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YO1 7PX York
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NG24 1WT NEWARK
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LE12 6PE Loughborough Leicestershire
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PR4 6XB PRESTON
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
BS11 9DE Bristol
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
PR5 6BY PRESTON
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LE13 0PB MELTON MOWBRAY
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6882 CT Velp
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3584 CH Utrecht
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1012WX Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
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1013 AE AMSTERDAM
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10117 BERLIN
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