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

国际农业循环联盟的37个合作伙伴（一半是学术/私人）旨在通过生态高效地将未充分利用的残留物升级为高附加值生物产品组合，从而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，这些产品能够产生新的生物基市场，或与以石油和粮食作物为基础的等外物竞争并获得市场份额。AgriLoop将开发安全和可持续设计（SSbD）生物转化过程，整合在层叠生物炼制方法中，将一系列农业残留物（例如西红柿，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)提高从初级和次级残留物中回收高功能天然分子的能力，并为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，同时ii)预测这种生物炼制的复杂循环，以符合安全和可持续的要求。引导AgriLoop级联过程的科学和技术进步，使其朝着量身定制的最终产品（节约设计）发展，并快速跟踪其进一步采用，如扩大选定的生物精炼厂计划所示。通过加强欧盟与欧盟的合作，为SSbD指南提供信息，并为灵活的农业价值链开辟新的途径，AgriLoop将通过减少农业残留物的排放来提高资源效率，同时在全球范围内参与替代蛋白质和生化产品（包括生物聚合物）的高度动态市场，并降低农业和粮食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.