The National Agricultural Chamber (NAK) in cooperation with the Hungarian Association of Young Farmers (AGRYA) invited the team of Ökoforestino Kft. to a training program of young farmers and students in Hungary, with the aim to promote the government’s EU-subsidised afforestation program and establishment of woody plantations. On November...
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New research about poplar plantations and LCA out now!
D4EU´s Austrian partner Wood K lus gives first insights to the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in value chain establishment. Learn more about the initial methodological approach and preliminary results: D5.2_Integration of LCA in value chain establishment_Methodological Approach_WoodKPlus_final The establishment of D4EU´s poplar plantations for bio‐based materials will provide new...
Plantations are better than their reputation!
Poplar plantations help fighting against biodiversity loss! D4EU´s short rotation poplar plantations allow herbal understorey, edges and gaps which can be an important habitat and/or food source for insects and other smaller animals. All the animals in the picture have been photographed in D4EU´s poplar plantations! Due to the...
Poplars for Eco-fungicidal Packaging Materials
The tasks of the Professorship of Wood Technology and Fibre Materials Technology (HFT) and Institute of Plant and Wood Chemistry (IPWC) of TU Dresden are focused on identification of the potential fungicidal substances in the bark of various poplar hybrids. The primary goal is to find out which substances...