Transcript Exchange of Experiences

ACCRETe 1st Thematic Workshop
Exchange
of
experiences:
presentation of best practices
Federica Rossi
CNR- Institute of
Biometeorology
ACCRETe 1st Thematic Workshop
Development of renewable
energy, implementation of
actions of energy control and
of energy efficiency in
agriculture:
exchange of experiences
Rising population, diminishing arable land, declining
non-renewable energy supplies, increasing
awareness of potential environmental degradation,
climate change and variability.
Common need to reach an equilibrium between
the use of production resources and the
preservation of the resources themselves.
Sustainable management in the agricultural sector
of the world’s economies is strongly seeked for.
The concept
encompasses ecological,
economic
and social problems in
which weather
and climate are of great
importance.
Need for improved understanding of the mutual interactions between
climate and yield, with regard to topics such as land use, natural hazards,
extreme events and assessment of their socio-economic impacts, and to
climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Agriculture has many unique
opportunities
to manage greenhouse gases
Reduce
Remove
Atmospheric C to store
in soils and
perennial crops
GHG emissions at source:
behavioural changeimproved efficiency and
processes
MITIGATION
Replace
Innovate to replace fossil
fuels with low GHG energy
(wind, solar, biomass)
Respond
TO
PREVENT
GHG
INCREASE
ADAPTATION
By adapting to changes
TO COPE WITH
INCREASES IN GHG
The agricultural system
Plants capture,
transfer, loose
energy and matter
producing drybiomass
input
output
Agricultural system may also produce
biomass energy as a output
Renewable organic materials: land and waterbased vegetation and wastes (forestry and
agricultural crops and residues; animal
wastes; certain industrial wastes, agricultural
crops, wood, and food processing wastes…).
input
output
GOOD
PRACTICES
GOOD PRACTICES
apply available knowledge to addressing
environmental, economic, social sustainability for
on-farm production processes
Optimization of external energy inputs
input
output
Production of dedicated energy outputs
(biomass)- use of residual products to be
converted into bioenergy
Short rotation
crops
Wood, pellets,
chips, fruit, olive
pits…
Manure
poultry,
pigs,
cattle
Optimization of external energy inputs
input
Geothermal water
output
dry tomato
Greece experience – Municipality of Chrissopoulis
Geothermal water
Protect lagoons
fish production
Optimization of external energy inputs
input
output
Wind-powered irrigation
Convert wind energy to mechanical for pumping underground water
Romania experience – National Institute of Areospace Res.
input
Production of dedicated
energy outputs (biomass)use of residual products to
be converted into
bioenergy
District heating with pellets of not treated wood – with
chips
Project Warm-Cold using biomass (Excellence Center
Bioenergies: mangement and planning of activities on bioenergy)
Basilicata Region experience
input
Production of dedicated
energy outputs (biomass)use of residual products to
be converted into
bioenergy
Implementatio of fast growing rows and hedges of autochtonous
plants in-farm production for wood biomass furnaces for
greenhouse or farm rooms heating
Province of Parma experience
Anaerobic digesters for biogas production with livestock
breeding
input
Production of dedicated
energy outputs (biomass)use of residual products to
be converted into
bioenergy
Pilot project on production of heat and electricity from biomass via
bioethanol produced by energy crops (sorghum), by-products (corn
shank), urban sewage etc.
Municipality of Aegion experience
Investigation about varieties, growing possibilities of rapes for the
production of domestic biodiesel
Agricultural Institute of Slovenia experience
input
Production of dedicated
energy outputs (biomass)use of residual products to
be converted into
bioenergy
Planning a biomass district heating
plant at IASMA using wood
residues available in the territory
and from IASMA farming activities
Institute of S.Michele all’Adige experience
input
Production of dedicated
energy outputs (biomass)use of residual products to
be converted into
bioenergy
Use of local heating supply on the
basis of biogas and use of
photovoltaic energy in a contest of
integrated development of the rural
Municipality of Ivenack.
Rostok experience