{"id":6972,"date":"2018-10-25T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2018-10-25T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:21:54","slug":"integrated-food-and-non-food-bio-economy-oriented-cropping-systems-an-emerging-win-win-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/integrated-food-and-non-food-bio-economy-oriented-cropping-systems-an-emerging-win-win-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrated Food and Non-Food Bio-Economy Oriented Cropping Systems: Emerging Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The French project <em>Demonstrating Sites Network<\/em>\u00a0aims at validating the production of sustainable and efficient bioresources within cropping systems of Northern France.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">France has recently\u00a0accomplished the \u201cBioeconomy Strategy for France\u201d, setting the basis for a further development of a sustainable bioeconomy sector. The North of France has the best assets to contribute to this process, thanks to<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0its transport infrastructures and industrial facilities and an overall high potential of biomass production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, in France as in most countries, competition between food and non-food crops is a significant challenge which the\u00a0\u201cDemonstrating Sites Network\u201d project is intended to address.\u00a0Thanks to a multicriterial evaluation of long-term field experiments of bioeconomy-oriented cropping systems, the project will develop a global approach which will serve as assisting procedure for future bio-economy actors.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Therefore, final scope is to<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">produce sustainable and efficient bioresources, while preserving the agro-ecosystem and meeting stakeholder\u2019s expectation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More precisely, &#8220;Demonstrating Sites Network&#8221; should:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">design innovative cropping systems adapted to Northern France to supply existing or emerging bioeconomy sectors with a wide range of raw materials;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to provide farmers and other stakeholders with data about bioeconomy-oriented cropping systems\u00a0as well as tools and methods to optimize biomass production and mobilization;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to evaluate benefits and externalities of producing food and non-food bioresources in cropping systems<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The project designed three types of cropping systems by focusing on potato-, sugar beet- cereal\/oilseed-and-forage-oriented system, which are currently applied in Northern France, as well as on food, feed, biogas, bio-sourced materials, etc. These three cropping systems provided three different scenarios which are<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0characterised by an increasing biomass production gradient: the &#8220;control scenario&#8221;, the &#8220;light bioeconomy scenario&#8221; and the &#8220;high bioeconomy scenario&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Five experimental platforms were located in different areas of Northern France: each\u00a0plot deals with one type of oriented-current system and with 2 or 3 cropping bioeconomy systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6978\" style=\"width: 959px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bioec2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bioec2.png\" alt=\"Example of tested scenarios in one of the 5 experimental platforms.\" width=\"959\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bioec2.png 959w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bioec2-600x181.png 600w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bioec2-300x91.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of tested scenarios in one of the 5 experimental platforms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is based on the presentation<\/span> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etaflorence.it\/proceedings\/index.asp?detail=15023\">Designing and Assessing Bioeconomy Oriented Cropping Systems<\/a><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">by Journel C., Zub-preudhomme H.W., Detot B., Jullier N., Preudhomme M. and Loyce C., presented at the\u00a026th European Biomass Conference &amp; Exhibition. 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