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AgroForNet - Sustainable development of rural areas through a network of producers and recyclers of dendromass for energy use
Collaborative Project
Contract period:
01.09.2010
- 28.02.2015
Coordinating institution:
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products
The overall objective of the AgroForNet research project lies in the development of regional value creation networks for the sustainable and efficient generation and preparation of dendromass from agriculture, forestry and the open landscape in three model regions. The model regions incorporated in the project are (i) Lausitz, (ii) the loess hills of Mittelsachsen and (iii) the southern part of the Hamburg metropolitan region.
Through the incorporation in the project of agriculture and forestry enterprises active in the three model regions, the project aims to ensure the sustainable production and supply of dendromass from forests, short rotation coppice (SRC) and from woody structures in the open landscape. The dendromass will be transported, dried and compacted by contractors from the regions and used for energy generation by local communities, power stations and industry. The various enterprises will be linked in regional value creation networks developed as part of innovative business models.
Collaborative Projects
Nature and resource conservation / landscape ecology
Leading institution:
Institute for Soil Science and Site Ecology
Socio-economics and spatial planning
Leading institution:
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics
Research projects
- Work package 2.3: Assessment of socio-economic effects of different business model types on farms and tested model regions
- Work package 2.4: analysis and evaluation of mechanisms of formal and informal instruments of regional planning to ensure sustainable production of dendromass to energy use
- Work package 2.8: Impact Evaluation of dendromass crops on landscape experience and recovery, integration of solutions in landscape design and overall spatial planning
- Development and economic analysis of innovative business models for sustainable regional production and utilization of woodfuel
Production and services
Leading institution:
OGF East German Society of Forest Planning mbH
Research projects
- Work package 3.5: Test of business models for the establishment of short rotation plantations and their integration into the crop rotation of a farm (Central Saxony loess hill)
- Work packages 3.6: Coordination of dendromass production and marketing in the southern Brandenburg part of the model region Lausitz and 3.11: using innovative technologies for decentralized woodchips drying
- Work package 3.12: Building public-private partnerships for the energetic use of wood in the model region Lausitz
- Work package 3.1: Develop and coordinate energy supply networks in connection with the development of service systems in the model regions Lausitz, Central Saxony loess hill and Southern metropolitan Region of Hamburg
- Joint project: AgroForNet - Sustainable development of rural areas through a network of producers and recyclers of dendromass for energy use - Subproject 2: Socioeconomics and spatial planning, work package 3.3: strengthening the energy use of dendromass from forest, urban and rural landscape on the example of Bautzen district
- Work package 3.4: Production and supply of dendromass (Southern Metropolitan Region of Hamburg)
- Work package 3.8: Compaction of wood chips
- Work package 3.14b: Regional concept to the use of wood ash in agriculture and forestry
- Work package 3.17: Structure of 'Coordination Centre for a short rotation economy' in the county of Central Saxony
Communication and public relations
Leading institution:
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products
Research projects
Project management and coordination
Leading institution:
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products
