Project description
Growing industrial crops on marginal lands
Industrial crops hold immense potential as a source of valuable resources and bioenergy. But maximising their benefits while ensuring sustainability is challenging. The EU-funded MAGIC project aims to harness the power of resource-efficient and economically profitable industrial crops cultivated on marginal lands. Specifically, its multifaceted approach features the development of an extensive database, as well as the cataloguing of existing resource-efficient industrial crops and their agronomic characteristics. Moreover, marginal lands in Europe will be mapped to identify best practices. Overall, the project's success relies on collaboration with farmers and end users through the development of a decision support system. MAGIC will also explore new breeding tools and refine biomass supply-chain logistics to enhance crop varieties.
Objective
Industrial Crops can provide valuable resources for high added value products and bioenergy. MAGIC aims to promote the sustainable development of resource-efficient and economically profitable industrial crops grown on marginal lands. To achieve that an up-to-date database of existing resource-efficient industrial crops will be developed with information on their agronomic characteristics, input requirements, yield performance and quality traits for end-use applications (WP1). A Decision Support System (DSS) will be developed and validated with the active involvement of farmers and end users. In parallel, current and future marginal lands in Europe facing natural constraints will be mapped, characterised and analysed to provide a spatially explicit classification that will serve as a basis for developing sustainable best-practice options for industrial crops (WP2). The most promising crop species will be identified taking advantage of the profound experience of the consortium and in a multi-actor approach with stakeholders. Further investigation actions include the creation of new breeding tools and strategies towards better crop varieties (WP3), the identification and optimization of appropriate agronomic practices with limited input requirements (WP4) and the development of suitable harvesting strategies and logistics to optimise the biomass supply-chains (WP5). The impact of MAGIC will be maximized by integrating sustainability aspects (covering environment, society and economy) of the value chains (WP6). Success stories of industrial crops in EU regions will be analysed addressing technical, environmental, economic and social issues to produce policy recommendations and best-practice guidelines for their promotion at local/regional level (WP7). The project results, database, maps and the DSS tool will be used as dissemination tools to increase farmers’ awareness and establish strong links with EIP AGRI (WP8).
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureagronomy
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureindustrial crops
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.2.1.1. - Increasing production efficiency and coping with climate change, while ensuring sustainability and resilience
- H2020-EU.3.2.4.1. - Fostering the bio-economy for bio-based industries
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
19009 Pikermi
Greece
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Participants (25)
40126 Bologna
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6708 PB Wageningen
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6708 PB Wageningen
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70599 Stuttgart
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75007 Paris
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91120 Palaiseau
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69120 Heidelberg
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SW7 2AZ LONDON
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50354 Hurth
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95131 Catania
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1099 085 Lisboa
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92700 Colombes
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28040 MADRID
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28003 Madrid
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00184 Roma
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60-630 Poznan
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7545 PN Enschede
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118 55 ATHINA
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03141 Kiev
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2169 Salaspils
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2361 Laxenburg
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28300 Champhol
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9679 EG Scheemda
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57022 Sindos
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