Valorise: A Digital Platform for Agri-Food By-Product Valorisation

在英国，51%的食物在到达消费者手中之前就在农业收获后的分配或加工过程中被浪费了。在全球范围内，整个食物链生产的所有食物中有三分之一以上被浪费。粮食损失的很大一部分与作物的内在生理学、收获后生物学控制不力以及所应用的控制系统的有效性和适当性有关。为了从废物中产生经济价值，农业食品副产品（AFBP）的价值评估和管理农业废物系统的供应链规划至关重要。对现有的农业废物、其分类和潜在用途缺乏综合知识，包括农业食品副产品如何成为其他应用和产品的宝贵原料资源。目前，大量农业废弃物的价值被低估且未得到充分利用。该项目包括开发一个用于AFBP交易的概念验证数字平台，从废弃物模型转向具有经济价值的资源。我们的目标是使用以人为本的设计模型来创建数字市场，通过采访价值链的代表，我们将获得用于食品生产商，加工商和那些希望购买原料的平台设计的信息。以人为本的设计（HCD）方法，结合数字平台的性能测试，将确保数字平台的未来发展满足潜在最终用户的要求，提高他们的可接受性，吸收和使用。我们的业务计划是基于那些希望购买或出售原料的订阅模式。该平台将向公共部门的研究人员免费开放，其基础是可用于制定公共政策的匿名数据集。鉴于继续需要以对社会负责和环境友好的方式增加粮食生产，可持续性至关重要，并将坚定地成为未来国际农业政策的核心。特别是，我们认为这项工作是对联合国可持续发展目标12“负责任的消费和生产”的回应，特别是12.3，旨在将零售/消费/生产/供应链中的食品损失减少50%。它将有助于在全国范围内解决具有立法重要性的领域，例如DEFRA的资源和废物战略（2019年），旨在减少垃圾填埋处理和25年环境计划-实现循环经济/净零碳排放2050\。

In the UK 51% of food is wasted before it gets to the consumer during agricultural post-harvest distribution or processing. Globally, over one third of all food produced across the food chain is wasted. A significant proportion of food loss relates to the inherent physiology of the crops, poor control of post-harvest biology and the efficacy and appropriateness of the control systems applied.To generate economic value from waste, the valorisation of agri-food by-products (AFBPs) and mapping of supply chains to manage agricultural waste systems is crucial. There is a lack of consolidated knowledge of existing agricultural waste, its categorisation and potential uses, including how agri-food by-products (AFBPs) can become a valuable feedstock resource for other applications and products. Currently huge portions of agricultural waste are undervalued and underutilised.This project encompasses the development of a proof-of-concept digital platform for trading in AFBPs, setting the scene from a move away from a waste model to a resource that has economic value. We are aiming to use a Human Centered Design model for the creation of a digital marketplace, by interviewing representatives from the value-chain, we will gain information for the design of the platform that will be of use for both food producers, processors and those looking to purchase feedstock. The Human Centered Design (HCD) approach, combined with performance testing of the digital platform, will ensure that future developments in the digital platform meet the requirements of prospective end-users, increasing their acceptability, uptake and use.Our business plan is based on a subscription model for those looking to buy or sell feedstock. The platform will be free to researchers in the public sector based on anonymised data sets that could be used for development of public policy.Sustainability is crucial and set to remain firmly at the centre of future international agricultural policy given the continued need to increase food production in both socially responsible and environmentally friendly ways. In particular we see this work as responding to the UNSDG 12 'Responsible Consumption and Production' and especially 12.3 for a 50% reduction in food losses from retail/consumer/production/supply chains. It will help address areas of legislative importance nationally, for example DEFRA's Resource and Waste Strategy (2019) which aims to reduced landfill disposal and the 25 Year Environment Plan-Progress toward a circular economy/net-zero carbon emissions 2050\.