AGROCYCLE

The Spanish Institute of Women (Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality) has implemented the DIANA Programme to promote the interest of girls in science and technology. Within this programme, ITACyL researchers were invited to participate in an event directed to 9-year old boys and girls at the public school CEIP Blanco de Cela (Astorga, Spain). During…

Two workshops were held to bring together key players to identify important resources, constraints and opportunities to developing novel value chains and creating sustainable business models, to feed into subsequent activities in WP8 and elsewhere in the project. The first workshop named “Sustainable municipal and agricultural waste management and the possibility of applying advanced technologies…

Tom Oldfield of UCD attended a workshop in Thurles, Ireland hosted by the EU project, AgriForValor (http://www.agriforvalor.eu/). The focus of the workshop was torrefaction and pyrolysis, and brought together over 80 attendees, including, academia, farmers, foresters, industry and policy makers from across Ireland. Three presenters shared their experience in developing their novel waste valorisation technologies,…

This document provides AgroCycle Protocol Rules (APR) for an assessment framework for the sustainability performance of agri-food waste and by-product valorization (both processes and products are covered by this protocol). This APR is suitable for application of life cycle assessment (LCA) methods to evaluate both the technology (e.g. anaerobic digestion, fermentation) and valorized product (e.g.…

On Nov. 22, 2016, CAU hosted the AgroCycle China Partners meeting. Project Coordinator Prof. Shane Ward, the CAU and NJTECH teams attended the meeting. Prof. Jia Honghua from NJTECH and Prof. Han Lujia from CAU presented their progress to date in AgroCycle.

AgroCycle’s Professor Shane Ward was invited to speak at the Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) this year. The DIF is an online, open access event which takes place over a three-week period around the world that invites thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses, makers and learners to explore the question “The economy is changing – what do I need to know, experience and do?”.…

  “When food is wasted, all of the time, energy, and other inputs (natural and artificial) that went into its production are lost.  The economic loss is felt at every step in the value chain, and the losses are amplified if we fail to make productive use of that food waste.  In living systems, the…

On October 26th, Jose Molto and Rocio Roldan, both chemical engineers at Exergy Ltd (Coventry, UK), had their first meeting with Dr. Xiaoyu Yong, lecturer in College of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering at Nanjing Tech University (China) to discuss technical aspects linked with the production of electricity through microbial fuel cells (MFC) from agrofood wastes (AFW).…

On the 7th October, Eoin White represented the AgroCycle project at the 2016 Annual Information Day on Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5 held in the Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The main aim of the event was to promote and disseminate Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5 Opportunities amongst the…

Mesfin T. Gebremikael (PhD) – Department of Soil Management Ghent University – recently had his article on ‘Nematodes enhance plant growth and nutrient uptake under C and N-rich conditions’ published in Nature.  “Abstract The role of soil fauna in crucial ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling remains poorly quantified, mainly because of the overly reductionistic approach…