LANDFEED

UNLOCKING EFFICIENT BIO-BASED FERTILISERS FOR SOIL SUSTAINABILITY FROM UNDERUTILISED SIDE STREAMS

Project details

Type of project: Innovation Action - Demonstration
Project focus: Crop protection & fertilisation
Feedstock origin: Organic waste
Feedstock type: Crop residues

Project period: 1 September 2024 - 31 August 2028
Status: In progress
CBE JU Contribution: € 6 532 131,25
Call identifier: HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023

Summary

Modern agriculture relies heavily on fertilisers to help plants grow and keep crop yields high. Most of them are however made of non-renewable resources and require energy-intensive production with considerable environmental impacts, which call for a shift towards sustainable practices.

LANDFEED aims to create new bio-based fertilisers by using underutilised waste from the agro-food industry, forestry, as well as urban and natural sources as feedstock. The project will also develop coatings for these bio-based fertilisers to improve nutrient release mechanisms, thus contributing to lower greenhouse gas emissions and reduced impact on water resources.

LANDFEED will ensure that the project’s solutions and results are locally driven through various use cases serving as lighthouses, demonstrating and disseminating project technologies and applications across the value chain. These use cases will contribute to soil health restoration and biodiversity enhancement, aligning with the EU Soil Strategy objectives. Moreover, a global business model will maximise the replicability of these cases, aiding their implementation in other European regions.

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Project coordination

NEIKER-INSTITUTO VASCO DE INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO AGRARIO SA Vizcaya, Spain

Consortium

ZABALA INNOVATION CONSULTING SA MUTILVA ALTA NAVARRA, Spain
PISCICULTURED'ISPEGUY SARL SAINT-ETIENNE-DE-BAIGORRY, France
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA CATANIA, Italy
LASER CONSULT MUSZAKI-TUDOMANYOS ES GAZDASAGI TANACSADO KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG Szeged, Hungary
IATRIDIS KONSTANTINOS Greece
INSTYTUT UPRAWY NAWOZENIA I GLEBOZNAWSTWA, PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY Pulawy, Poland
ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION ATHINA, Greece
CENTRE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND SAVING FONDATION PIKERMI, Greece
INRAE TRANSFERT SAS PARIS, France
AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE ROMA, Italy
FERTINAGRO BIOTECH SL TERUEL, Spain
CENTRE REGIONAL D'INNOVATION ET DE TRANSFERT DE TECHNOLOGIE AGRORESSOURCES Toulouse, France
FUNDACION AZTI - AZTI FUNDAZIOA SUKARRIETA, Spain
AUZO LAGUN S. COOP Mondragon, Spain
KOLLVIK RECYCLING SAS ADVANCED COMPOSTING SOLUTIONS Saint Quentin, France
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT PARIS CEDEX 07, France
INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE TOULOUSE Toulouse Cedex 4, France
CHAMBRE D'AGRICULTURE DES PYRENEES ATLANTIQUES PAU, France
EUROPEAN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE (ESCI) GGMBH Oldenburg, Germany
POLITECHNIKA WROCLAWSKA Wroclaw, Poland