AgriLoop: Pushing the frontier of circular agriculture by converting residues into novel economic, social and environmental opportunities

国际农业圈联盟的37个合作伙伴(一半是学术或私人的)旨在扩大全球生物经济的两个主要参与者：欧盟和中国的农业产值，方法是以生态效益的方式将未被开发的残留物升级为高附加值的生物产品组合，能够创造新的生物市场，或与油料和粮食作物的同类产品竞争并获得市场份额。AgriLoop将开发安全和可持续的设计(SSbD)生物转化过程，整合在级联生物精炼方法中，将一系列农业残留物(从番茄、大豆、秸秆、土豆、啤酒厂、石油、酿酒厂和畜牧业)转化为植物和微生物蛋白质、聚酯和其他生物基化学品，用于食品、饲料、保健和材料应用，特别是农业部门。AgriLoop的科学和技术目标是：i)提高从初级和次级残留物中回收高功能天然分子，并针对微生物蛋白质和聚酯制定生物转化计划，以便以平衡的方式克服与原料复杂性、工艺生态效率和最终产品性能相关的限制，并同时预测这种生物精炼厂的复杂循环，以符合安全和可持续的要求，引导AgriLoop级联工艺的科学和技术进步，使其成为恰好需要的最终产品(节约型设计)，并快速跟踪其进一步采用，如扩大选定的生物精炼计划所证明的那样。通过加强欧盟-CN合作，为SSBD提供指导，并为灵活的基于农业的价值链开辟新的途径，AgriLoop将通过减少农业残渣的排放来提高资源效率，同时在高度活跃的全球替代蛋白质和生物化学品市场(包括。生物聚合物)以及降低农业和食品系统对我们环境和健康的成本。

The 37 partners (half academic/private) of the International AgriLoop consortium aim to extend the agricultural production value of two major players of the global bioeconomy: EU and China, by eco-efficiently upgrading underexploited residues into a portfolio of high added-value bio-products able to generate new bio-based markets or to compete with, and gain market share of, oil- and food crops- based equivalents. AgriLoop will develop safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) bioconversion processes integrated in a cascading biorefinery approach to convert a range of agri-residues (from e.g. tomato, soy, straw, potato, brewery, oil, winery and livestock sectors) into plant and microbial proteins, polyesters and other bio-based chemicals to be used for food, feed, health and materials applications, especially by the farming sector. AgriLoop scientific and technical objectives are to i) improve the recovery of highly functional native molecules from primary and secondary residues and to tailor bioconversion schemes toward microbial proteins and polyesters, for overcoming in a balanced way the limitations related to feedstock complexity, processes eco-efficiency and end-products performances, and in parallel ii) anticipate the complex circularities of such biorefinery to comply with safe and sustainable requirements, guide scientific and technological advances of AgriLoop cascading processes toward end-products tailored to the just necessary (frugal design) and fast track their further adoption as demonstrated in upscaling selected biorefineries schemes. By strengthening EU-CN cooperation, informing SSbD guidance and opening up new avenues for flexible agri-based value chains, AgriLoop will increase resources efficiency through reduced discharges of agricultural residues, while taking share of the highly dynamic worldwide markets of alternative proteins and biochemicals (incl. biopolymers) and reducing the cost of agriculture and food system on our environment and health.