EU Green Week 2025
Harnessing plant breeding for a more circular bioeconomy
When? 2nd of June, from 14:00 to 16:00 | Where? Online & in-person in Brussels (hybrid)
Plant breeding is the heart of our agrifood systems and the future of a more circular bioeconomy. In the last 20 years, plant breeding alone accounted for 67% of crop productivity gains in the EU. As part of the Green Deal goals, the EU aims to move away from the use of fossil fuels towards a more circular bioeconomy. To succeed, alternative sources of carbon must be leveraged. Plants have an important role to play in providing a broad range of biobased materials for diverse purposes, but care should be taken to avoid competition between food, feed and raw biomass for the wider bioeconomy.
Plants for the Future will organise an EU Green Week 2025 partner event, to highlight the importance of plant breeding and how it can play a key strategic role in ensuring food security, while reducing the environmental impact of our agrifood systems and providing sufficient biobased raw materials for a growing bioeconomy. Discussion topics will include: how we can better leverage plant breeding R&I for optimising biomass for the circular bioeconomy; challenges in breeding multipurpose crops and how we can better valorise biomass to provide new business opportunities for famers.
More information coming soon!
Read more on our past EU Green Week partner events and communication efforts from past years: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020.
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