Sustainable Renewable Energy Value Chains to Meet Farmers’ Needs

The overall aim of the Value4Farm project is to help reduce the carbon footprint of the agricultural sector.

Promoting decentralised renewable energy production and use is seen as a reasonable solution, whilst also encouraging rural development. In farming systems, producing and using energy on site creates synergies between agriculture and renewable energy technologies. However, this usually raise challenges such as the high price of those technologies, especially for small-size farms, or around the energy crop vs food dilemma. Within the Value4Farm project, partners work to demonstrate how three renewable-based local value chains based on photovoltaic and biogas technologies can be successfully implemented in farming, thus combining sustainable food and renewable-energy production for the benefit for farmers and society at large.