Promoting Evidence-based Debates and Recognising Potential Benefits

The graphic shows the multiple potential benefits of using food and feed crops for bio-based materials, in terms of climate, land productivity, environment, farmers, market stability, feed security and food security.

1. The climate wins – Bio-based materials are part of the solution to achieve climate change mitigation.
2. Land productivity wins – The competition between applications is not for the type of crop grown, but for the land
3. The environment wins – due to increased resource efficiency and productivity of food and feed crops.
4. Farmers win – because they have more options for selling stock to different markets.
5. Market stability wins – due to increased global availability of food and feed crops.
6. Feed security wins – due to the high value of the protein-rich co-products of food and feed crops.
7. Food security wins – due to the increased overall availability of edible crops that can be stored and flexibly distributed.