Non Food Uses of Crops
"Renewable materials derived from crops can help developed economies to meet their targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time they can allow diversifying of the types of enterprises available to a sustainable agricultural industry by developing new markets. Through both the Competitive Industrial Materials from Non Food Crops, and the Renewable Materials LINK schemes in the UK, as well as various EU research programmes over the past decade, a number of projects have been funded on non food uses of crops. This conference aims to bring together the research carried out in the UK and elsewhere, to review progress and to assess the current opportunities for both novel crop species, and non food uses of conventional crops. Papers are invited covering research relating to product manufacture and testing, supply chains, agronomy, processing and manufacture as well as market development."
