Publications - UK A strategy for non-food crops and uses - creating value from renewable materials

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This 45 page report was published by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in October 2004 by DEFRA Publications, under Crown Copyright (Product code PB 10188). The doccument is also available on the DEFRA website. Printed copies mya be obtained from Defra Publications, Admail 6000, London SW1A 2XX, UK.

The contents are as follows:

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Contents
Foreword
Summary
Action Plan
Chapter 1: Scope and context of the strategy

Chapter 2: Environmental outcomes

Tackling global warming
Reducing pollution
Biodiversity and landscape
Chapter 3: Industrial innovation and bioscience

Chapter 4: A new direction for farming

2003 UK figures
Chapter 5: Delivery and monitoring of the strategy

Appendix 1

Sustainability criteria set by the Government-Industry Forum on Non-Food
Uses of Crops for assessment of particular non-food uses

Glossary

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The action paln is perhaps the most significant part of the doccument, since it sets out what the British Government has done, or intends to do, in support of non-food crops. To quote the doccument This action plan gives effect to the various strands of the strategy. Some of the actions are already in place, while others involve new intitiatives the need for which has been identified in previous analyses and in the consultations which have led to the publication of this strategy.

This information is presented under the following headings:

• Promoting the non-food use of crops through the provision of information and knowledge
• Analysing strategic issues and identifying barriers to the development of non-food crops
• Funding scientific research
• Contributing to the low carbon economy with renewable fuels and energy
• Contributing to improvements in waste disposal and tackling pollution and health risks
• Contributing to sustainability in the building and construction industries
• Increasing the use of sustainable products through Government procurement policies.
• Biodiversity
• Using CAP measures to promote non-food crops
• Using environmental regulation to achieve environmental outcomes with benefits for non-food crops
• Instigate blue sky thinking to underpin long-term development of the sector.