AVEBIOM and Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España are collaborating on the national development of the new thERBN platform, presented on April 30, which brings together solutions, practical cases and innovation agents to help the primary sector to valorize organic waste and agricultural, livestock, forestry and agro-industrial by-products, access useful knowledge and move towards more circular, sustainable and competitive production models.
The European Thematic Network on Rural Bioeconomy —thERBN— has launched its new open platform for knowledge and connection between stakeholders, designed to bring together in a single space information, experiences and solutions related to the rural bioeconomy.
The platform, available in https://erbn.eu, It facilitates access to practical knowledge for farmers, livestock breeders, cooperatives, rural SMEs, forest owners, advisors, technology centers, solution providers and public administrations interested in new biological value chains.
The launch took place during an online session with the working group on agricultural inputs and bio-based materials. During the meeting, examples of value chains in Spain related to biofertilizers, biopesticides, biomaterials, bioplastics, and biopolymers were presented. The work carried out so far has identified more than 200 initiatives in Spain, demonstrating the potential of the rural bioeconomy to generate new opportunities from organic waste and byproducts of the rural environment.
So far, thERBN has made progress in creating national working groups, connecting primary sector agents with solution providers, and identifying real rural bioeconomy initiatives in several European countries.
In Spain, this work has been strengthened by the collaboration between AVEBIOM and Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España, the compilation of solutions applicable on a small and medium scale and the dissemination of good practices that can help farmers, livestock breeders, cooperatives and rural SMEs to convert organic waste and by-products into new resources, renewable energy, biofertilizers or bio-based materials