Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society

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The goal of the project was the evaluation and demonstration of the potential of ecological recycling-based agriculture, combined with priority for local and regional processing, distribution and consumption, in order to reduce consumption of limited resources, emissions of greenhouse gases and nitrogen and phosphorus pollution to the Baltic Sea area by half or more, according to politically decided environmental goals for the region. The goal was to base the knowledge of ecological recycling-based agriculture on practical case studies, primarily in one or two selected rural areas, complemented by selected reference farms in each country, where practical initiatives have been taken to bring about lifestyle changes through the whole of the food chain – from primary agricultural production, via processing, distribution and storage to final consumption – based on ecological production (agriculture and processing), recycling and a minimisation of transport systems which contribute to the greenhouse effect. Results, recommendations and evaluated examples should be published in an Agenda for Baltic Ecological Recycling-based Agriculture and Society. The long-term aim of the project was to develop a knowledge base network of ecological recycling-based farms, able to influence the policy makers regarding possible means of significantly decreasing consumption of non-renewable energy and other limited resources, and of reducing the negative environmental impacts of production, distribution, processing and consumption of food.

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