White Paper for Grassland Opportunities

White Paper for Grassland Opportunities

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Author
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (Germany): Philipp Grundmann, Muluken E. Adamseged, Hyunjin Park, Zhengqiu Ding, Richard Orozco, Sonja Germer, Thomas Heinrich, Thomas Hoffmann
Aarhus University (Denmark): Uffe Jørgensen, Morten Ambye-Jensen
University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain): María Rosa Mosquera-Losada, Vanessa Álvarez-López
IFAU Institute for Food Studies & Agro-industrial Development (Denmark): Karen Thorsted Hamann
Zabala Innovation Consulting (Spain): Néstor Etxalek
ACRRES Wageningen University (The Netherlands): Rommie van der Weide, Kimberly Wevers
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (Sweden): Tora Råberg, Susanne Paulrud
Hiemstra Bruin (The Netherlands): Gosse Hiemstra
Gate2Growth (Denmark): Uffe Bundgaard-Jørgensen, Carmen Bianca Socaciu, Anna Paulusz
Greenovate! Europe (Belgium): Nathalie Bargues, Simon Hunkin, Virginia Mosteyrin Perdiguero
Publication Date
January, 2024
Country
Belgium
Language for original content
Scope

The GO-GRASS White Paper for grassland opportunities demonstrates innovative and diverse ways of considering surplus grass and grasslands as new resources for the benefit of society, the environment and businesses. It shows the importance of a supportive business environment that encourages innovative, grass-based businesses. 

The GO-GRASS project aims to create new business opportunities in rural areas based on grassland valorisation, and to support their replication throughout rural communities in the EU. Since October 2019, the project has connected 22 partners from eight countries, which are developing small-scale demonstration sites for a circular agrifood system in four EU countries - Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.