Imagine turning abandoned, useless farmland into a goldmine for green products. This project helps farmers team up to share costs and risks while producing high-value materials from nature. It's like creating a shared neighborhood toolkit that makes small-scale farming economically viable and eco-friendly.
Rural primary producers face low incomes, fragmented supply chains, and land abandonment. There is a lack of viable business models to turn marginal lands into profitable, sustainable bio-based production sites.
An Optimization Toolkit for bio-based value chains and a set of cooperative business models validated across 10 regional value chains.
If you are a consultancy dealing with declining farmer revenues and land abandonment — this project developed an Optimization Toolkit that helps design viable bio-based value chains. It allows you to help clients recover 405 hectares of marginal land in Italy to make it economically productive.
If you are a manufacturer dealing with fragmented supply chains and unstable feedstock access — this project developed cooperative business models that organize primary producers into robust bio-communities. This ensures a more reliable flow of raw materials for 10 validated value chains across Europe.
If you are a logistics provider dealing with inefficient rural transport and high costs — this project developed modules for logistics and organizational optimization. This helps in integrating short supply chains to reduce waste and improve delivery efficiency for bioproducts.
Based on available project data, specific pricing or implementation costs are not provided; however, the project focuses on increasing farmers' revenues and making unproductive land economically viable.
The project is validating 10 value chains (6 in Italy, 2 in Spain, and 2 in Denmark) and aims to recover 405 hectares of marginal land in Italy.
Based on available project data, specific licensing terms are not listed, but the project intends to generate 11 key exploitable results, including technical and socioeconomic outputs.
BRILIAN addresses regulatory barriers by providing policy recommendations and aligning its models with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the EU Green Deal.
The project runs from June 1, 2023, to May 31, 2027, with the first period already covering feedstock mapping and market analysis.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward practical application, with 46% industry participation (6 partners) and 7 SMEs. The presence of 4 research entities and 3 other organizations across 6 countries (BE, CZ, DK, EL, ES, IT) suggests a strong balance between technical development and regional market validation, specifically targeting the transition from research to commercial viability in rural settings.
Contact Fundacion Circe in Spain for details on the Optimization Toolkit.
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