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FACCE – JPI launches its first European project.
 (11.04.2012, FACCE - JPI)

FACCE - JPI announced the approval for funding of its first joint action. This action brings together 67 research groups from 17 countries and aims to improve the characterisation of European food security due to climate change and to enhance adaptation capacity through improvements in modeling of impacts of climate change. This ambitious project has estimated total costs of around 15 million €.

Sustainability of different methods for forest energy production
 (17.02.2012, Finnish Environment Institute)

The research project "Multidimensional sustainability framework to evaluate forest and wood energy production – BioSus" was concerned with a sustainability evaluation of four production chains based on the energy use of forest biomass: heat production based on the use of local forest chips, combined heat and energy production using wood and peat, production of wood pellets from wood product industry by-products, and biodiesel produced from wood and peat biomass.

The selenium intake among the Finns is at a sufficient level
 (30.01.2012, MTT)

According to the most recent report of the Selenium Working Group coordinated by the Agrifood Research Finland MTT, the selenium intake among the Finns is at a sufficient level. This is due to the supplementation of fertilisers with selenium, which increases the selenium content in domestic feedingstuffs and foods to the target level. The results presented in the report show that selenium fertilisation is an efficient and safe way to secure sufficient selenium intake at a reasonable cost.
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