Towards a circular agriculturevision and implementation

Conf. univ. dr. Mignon Sandor

USAMV Cluj-Napoca

The Joint Programming Initiative onAgriculture, Food Security & Climate Change

(FACCE-JPI)

Joint actionsaddress the diverse challenges in agriculture, food security and climate change.

ERANET Cofound – FACCE SURPLUSNo more waste in the new bioeconomy

SUSTAINFARMInnovative and sustainable intensification of integrated food and non-food

systems to develop climate-resilient agro-ecosystems in Europe and beyond

Faculty of Science,

University of

Copenhagen (UCPH)

Partners

Objective

• The main objective of SustainFarm is to enhance agronomic, environmental and economic performance of integrated food and non-food systems (IFNS) by optimizing productivity and valorizing woody components, residual wastes and co-products.

6/13/2019

Claus Bo Andreasen/WP5

Integrated food and non-food production systems (IFNS) are systems inwhich trees, crops and livestock components are integrated in different waysat different scales

Sisteme de producție care integrează producția agricolă cu producția de energie

Sisteme tradiționale agrosilvopastorale Livezi tradiționale de măslini cu pajiști naturale

Sisteme agrosilvice

Study case in Romania – Mihalca Farm

Public Goods Tool results for Mihalca Farm

Agri-

environmental

management, 3.3 Landscape and

heritage features,

3.0

Soil management,

3.2

Water

management, 3.6

Fertiliser

management, 3.0

Energy and

carbon, 2.6

Food security, 4.4

Agricultural

systems diversity,

3.6

Social capital, 3.8

Farm business

resilience, 4.3

Animal health and

welfare

management, 4.5

Governance, 3.0

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0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.5

3.0

3.5

4.0

4.5

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Agri-environmental participation

Conservation plan

Habitats

Historic features

Management of boundaries

Soil analysis

Winter grazing

Cultivation

Water management plan

Irrigation

NPK balance

Manure management

Benchmarking

Energy saving options

Land use change

Total Productivity

Off farm feed

Food Quality certification

Cropland diversity

Marketing

Wooy perennial land area

Skills and knowledge

CSR initiatives and accreditations

Human Health Issues

Farm resilience

Health plan

Ability to perform natural behaviours

Biosecurity

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Sustainability assessment

2. Valorization products of IFNS

The production network around milk market

• The business of pellets

Pellets making is the process by which solid fuel is produced from agricultural and forestry materials such as sawdust, branches, wood scraps or other woody scraps, leaves, straw, sunflower or corn stalks.

SECONDARY PRODUCTS

ProblemsKnowledge is missing for many farmerBad infrastructureThere is no subsidy on agroforestry system Farmers unwillingness to collaborate with each other.Technical problems in the producing process