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

AgriLoop：通过将残留物转化为新的经济、社会和环境机会，推动循环农业的发展

• 批准号: 10058186
• 金额: $ 31.44万
• 依托单位: THE BIORENEWABLES DEVELOPMENT CENTRE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10058186
• 关键词: AgriLoop; Pushing; frontier; circular; agriculture

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.

国际农业循环联盟的37个合作伙伴（一半是学术界/私营部门）旨在扩大全球生物经济的两个主要参与者（欧盟和中国）的农业生产价值，方法是以生态效率高的方式将未充分开发的残留物升级为高附加值的生物产品组合，这些产品能够产生新的生物基市场，或与石油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设计（SSbD）生物转化工艺，将其集成到级联生物精炼方法中，将一系列农业残留物（例如番茄，大豆，秸秆，马铃薯，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，健康和材料应用，特别是农业部门。AgriLoop的科学和技术目标是i）改进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定制生物转化方案，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，以及并行地ii）预期这种生物精炼的复杂循环以符合安全和可持续的要求，引导科学和技术进步的农业循环级联过程对最终产品量身定制的公正必要的（节俭设计）和快速跟踪其进一步采用，如在扩大选定的生物炼制方案中所示。通过加强欧盟-CN合作，为SSbD指导提供信息，并为灵活的农业价值链开辟新途径，AgriLoop将通过减少农业残留物的排放来提高资源效率，同时分享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）和降低农业和食品系统对我们环境和健康的成本。