Horizon Bioeconomy: Balancing Nature Markets and Food Security
Funds two €6M projects that show how farmers can earn from carbon and biodiversity credits without shrinking Europe's food supply.
Farmland and farm biomass are being pulled toward new uses — bio-based chemicals and materials, energy, carbon credits, biodiversity credits, and other paid “nature market” services. That's real new income for farmers, but it also raises a real risk: less land and biomass going toward food. This topic funds the research and tools to grow that income without shrinking food supply, in support of the…
Research and policy work that shows how EU farmers can earn new income from the bioeconomy and from “nature markets” — carbon credits, biodiversity credits, and other market-based payments for environmental services — without cutting into food production. Funded work covers natural capital accounting methods, new business models and value chains that pay farmers beyond food and feed, interdisciplinary impact analysis from farm to macro level (income, biomass supply and demand, land-use and food-security risk), and policy recommendations that balance bioeconomy, climate and biodiversity goals against food security. Two lump-sum grants of €6M each are planned, and the two funded projects are expected to work together, not separately.
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