Agricultural and forest biomass production for energy use

Abstract: Global changespush to set up strategies able to mitigate and adapt agricultural and forest crops to environmental variability, and the sustainable intensification of production processes under agricultural and forestrysystems is one of the approaches mainly supported. In Italy biomass and biogas are the renewable energy sources that have shown the greatest potential for growth in recent years. In this context, during the XV National Congress held in Bolzano in February 2018, the Italian Association of Agricultural Scientific Societies has promoted an analysis about potentialities and limits of the sustainable intensification of agricultural and forestrysystems for bioenergyproduction. This document reports the outcome, in the form of a commented discussion, on the main evidences and proposals from technical-scientific and operational pointsof view.