NTENSE helps to reconvert poor, abandoned and polluted sites including grassland, set aside land, brownfields, and otherwise marginal lands into sustainable 
agricultural production across Europe. Innovative system-based tools for the development and implementation of integrated food and non-food production 
serving for intensified land management of these land areas are constructed. These tools encompass researches on (a) crucial soil components and processes 
for recovering soils from pollution, drought or other reasons for low productivity, (b) plant species producing high biomass on marginal and/or contaminated 
soils, (c) the optimum composition for composting and biogas production, and (d) degradation and absorption of pollutants by selected plant species and to 
demonstrate their potential. Stakeholders including farms and farm-associated biogas enterprises are integrated in the project to facilitate the implementation 
of sustainable and financially attractive production alternatives. This holistic approach will enable the identification of common traits and the development 
and dissemination of production chains for sustainable intensification, adapted to the environmental and socio-economic diversity within Europe.