Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy

Alternative proteins are of increasing interest in terms of their potential to improve food security and reduce the environmental impacts of food and feed production. This study assesses the current...

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...

Food production and consumption are ever evolving. From growing health consciousness, sustainability concerns, and technological developments, there are countless influencing factors that are re-shaping...

The VALPRO Path project aims to shed light on the need to boost and diversify the production of plant-based protein in Europe. This is for a range of reasons including food security, human nutrition...

In 2005 and 2010, the European Commission (EC) published two subsequent ‘Road Maps’ to provide options for relaxation of the bans on the application of animal proteins in feed. Since then, the food...

Accelerating Protein Diversification for Europe is a policy brief on protein diversification, presenting a summary of policy recommendations aimed at accelerating progress towards a transformative shift in how we...

European Parliament resolution of 19 October 2023 European protein strategy

An EIT Food funded project transformed organic waste streams into, a valuable, next generation sustainable aquaculture feed ingredient called METAFEED Alpha.

Phosphorus (P) accumulation in aquaculture systems is damaging our environment beyond acceptable levels. Devising strategies to potentially recover P from aquaculture systems in a reusable bioresource...

Companies making cultured meat are attracting billions of dollars of investment. Here are their biggest challenges.