Members from one of our partner entities presented the project SEA2LAND at the Sustainability in Food Production – Biocircularity webinar. The event, which was aimed at a Portuguese speaking audience, focused on presenting innovative approaches to achieve a sustainable food production system.
Food sustainability is one of the goal of SEA2LAND, which has the main goal of producing advanced bio-based fertilizers from fisheries waste, During the oresentation. During the event, representatives form ISQ, a partner entity, presented the project´s objectives, organization, and implementation. They discussed some of the expected results as well as some of the tools developed in the context of the project, paying special attention to the SEA2LAND GIS Viewer.
The webinar was organized by Food4Sustainabiliy CoLab, a non-for-profit Collaborative Laboratory (CoLAB) focused on advancing innovation in sustainable food production and promoting circular production systems, CoLABs like Food4Sustainability are part of a Portuguese government initiative aimed at fostering collaboration between companies, universities, and research centers to create skilled jobs and generate economic and social value. These labs focus on building a knowledge-based economy and strengthening ties between science and industry.
About Sea2Land
SEA2LAND aims to provide solutions to help overcome challenges related to food production, climate change and waste reuse. Based on the circular economy model, the EU-funded SEA2LAND project promotes the production of large-scale fertilisers in the EU from own raw materials. This solution is expected to reduce the soil nutrient imbalance in Europe. The basis of the project is the regional production of BBFs developing demonstration pilots that can be replicated throughout Europe, boosting local growth. The project proposes the implementation of 9 technologies in 7 cases in 6 areas representative of the fisheries sector. The technologies will be applied to different by-products from seafood processing and aquaculture sectors, and they will produce several BBFs either for local crops and conditions, and others for exporting.