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The application of life cycle assessment (LCA) to biorefineries is a necessary step to estimate their environmental sustainability. This review explores contemporary LCA biorefinery studies, across different...

Maintaining soil fertility is fundamental for ensuring the productivity and resilience of agricultural systems. African farmers face challenges to manage soil health due to the fragility of the majority of African...

Highlights: This study focuses on the potential of off-farm production and marketing of organic and biofertilisers (OFBF) to contribute to soil health in Africa , and particularly in SSA: Egypt (Northern Africa)...

Any of a group of complex carbohydrates that, with other carbohydrates (e.g.,pectins), surround the cellulose fibres of plant cells. The most common hemicelluloses contain xylans (many molecules...

The integration of microalgae cultivation in anaerobic digestion (AD) plants can take advantage of relevant nutrients (ammonium and ortho-phosphate) and CO2 loads. The proposed scheme of microalgae integration...

The 2018 EU Bioeconomy Strategy aims to create a sustainable, circular, and low-emissions economy, based on the use of renewable biological resources. The strategy focuses on the development of new biobased...

Growing demand in the fisheries sector has resulted in a high generation of side-streams that are mainly treated as waste despite their potential value in terms of protein, fatty...

With funding from the European Commission, an unprecedented collaboration between Carbon Minds, numerous project partners, and many supporters in the chemical industry is developing significant improvements to the Environmental Footprint...

Today, the Commission has proposed a series of targeted actions to boost biotechnology and biomanufacturing in the EU. The Communication on Building the future with nature identifies the challenges and barriers and proposes to tackle...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released a plan that will boost biomass supply chain resiliency for domestic biobased product manufacturing, while also advancing...