Sweetfuel

The specific objectives are:

This WP will provide a full appreciation of the various impacts of the sweet sorghum production and use chains and alternative production systems for biomaterials, food, fibres and biofuels.

Importantly, this analysis should clearly establish to what an extent the activities on sweet sorghum improves the current state of sweet sorghum production and use patterns and how the benefits/limitations of this advanced approach compare to other concepts such as the production of competing biofuels or producing food, feed and/or fibres. With this, finally, the most promising sweet sorghum routes will be depicted in terms of being most sustainable.

Using input from WP1 to WP5, technological, environmental and economic assessments supplemented by a SWOT analysis (on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) will provide an integrated assessment that will depict the most sustainable pathways for sweet sorghum production and use routes.

Three workshops dedicated to different topics will be held (two of them related to task 6.1 and one to task 6.4).

WP6 tasks are:

Task 6.1.  Technological Assessment

Task 6.2.  Environmental Assessment

Task 6.3.  Economic Assessment

Task 6.4.  SWOT Analysis

Task 6.5.  Integrated Assessment