Webinar: Developing High-Value Products from Agricultural Residues

AgriLoop is a major EU, UK Research and Innovation and Chinese-funded project finding new ways to convert agricultural-food residues into high-value, eco-friendly products, such as food and feed ingredients and bio-based materials.

Agricultural food residues are an underexploited resource for the EU and China, and making better use of them can bring significant economic, environmental and societal benefits.

35 partners across Europe and China, are joining forces in AgriLoop to increase agricultural sustainability, grow the bioeconomy, tackle climate change and plastic pollution, and increase European/Chinese cooperation.

Innovative processes and a collaborative approach

AgriLoop will develop safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) bioconversion processes integrated into a cascading biorefinery approach to convert a range of agri-residues (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.

The AgriLoop consortium will work together via a series of defined and inter-connected work packages across the European and Chinese partners.

Developing a range of innovative eco-friendly products

AgriLoop's scientific and technical objectives are to improve the recovery of highly functional native molecules from primary and secondary residues and to tailor bioconversion schemes toward microbial proteins and polyesters.

Creating environmental, economic and societal impacts

By strengthening EU and Chinese cooperation, informing SSbD guidance and opening up new avenues for flexible agri-based value chains, AgriLoop will increase resource efficiency through reduced discharges of agricultural residues. It will also take a share of the highly dynamic worldwide market of alternative proteins and biochemicals (including biopolymers) and reduce the cost of agriculture and food systems on the environment and our health.

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