Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy

In the development of circular and climate neutral food, feed and non-food applications, low trophic marine biomass will play an important role. Low trophic marine species...

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...

The brackish, semi-enclosed Baltic Sea is especially vulnerable to the possible negative impacts of invasive species. Here, we examine the effects on commercial fish stocks of four species...

In the project ULTRADREAM (funded by TKI-AF), which started in the summer of 2023, Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (WFBR) is supporting the development of the circular economy by using agricultural...

This report sets out guidance on managing healthy and resilient ecosystems in the context of the bioeconomy in Europe, specifically focused on agro-ecosystems, forest ecosystems and marine aquaculture ecosystems. The guidelines...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the climate benefits of harvested Wood-based Construction Products (WCP), and to explore the role of policy in encouraging the use of these materials. In particular, this study explores...

As part of its Green Deal Roadmap, the EU Commission has launched the Farm to Fork (F2F) and Biodiversity (BD) Strategies to cope with the environmental and climate challenges. Currently...

This study presents scenarios on how demand and supply for bio-based chemicals and materials could grow to 2030, and provides roadmaps with actions required to increase the deployment of chemical and material...

The European Union’s new Farm to Fork Strategy will initiate several well-defined actions, but its potential to foster genuine change of EU food systems depends...

The core of this research is an industrial organic waste treatment trial in which the fate of compostable packaging products is studied in a full scale organic waste treatment facility. The focus...