The European "Rejuvenate" project

The European "Rejuvenate" project is exploring opportunities for combining marginal land reuse, organic matter recycling, risk management and biomass production.

Rejuvenate will examine the feasibility of a range of possible approaches to combining risk based land management (RBLM) with non-food crop land uses and organic matter reuse as appropriate; develop a decision support tool to identify marginal land for biomass reuse opportunities in the UK, Germany and Sweden; and assess how verification of their performance might be carried out and identifying what requirements remain for future research, development and demonstration.

Rejuvenate includes partners from Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden and began in October 2008. It is funded, under the umbrella of an ERA-Net SNOWMAN, by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affaires and the Environment Agency (England), FORMAS (Sweden) and Bioclear BV (Netherlands).