Descripción del proyecto
Convertir los flujos secundarios del procesamiento de alimentos en recursos valiosos para el suelo
Las montañas de residuos procedentes del procesamiento de alimentos son omnipresentes en el mundo moderno y provocan el deterioro de la salud del suelo. El proyecto DeliSoil, financiado con fondos europeos, es una iniciativa pionera en la que se empleará un planteamiento transdisciplinar para codiseñar procesos que no solo reduzcan los flujos secundarios del procesamiento de alimentos, sino que además los conviertan en enmiendas del suelo a medida mediante un método de bioeconomía circular. Esta innovadora iniciativa incluye una red de cinco laboratorios vivientes regionales, cada uno adaptado a un contexto específico y en los que se utilizarán tecnologías de vanguardia para crear enmiendas del suelo a medida. La estabilidad, la bioseguridad y la integridad molecular de estas enmiendas se garantizarán a través de evaluaciones rigurosas en laboratorios punteros. También se evaluará su impacto sobre la salud del suelo, el rendimiento agrícola y los riesgos medioambientales, lo que aportará una comprensión integral de sus posibles beneficios.
Objetivo
DeliSoil will adopt a multi-actor, transdisciplinary approach to co-design processes that minimise food processing waste and valorise its by-products. We will apply a circular bioeconomy approach to the waste hierarchy, creating sustainable soil improvers in support of soil health in Europe. DeliSoil’s 5 regional Living Labs (LLs), with actors along the entire food value chain, will use innovative technologies to convert residues from food processing and production industries into tailored soil improvers. Research partners and companies will evaluate the soil improvers in state-of-the-art laboratories, and landowners will test the project’s solutions. The tailored soil improvers will be tested for stability, biosafety and molecular parameters, and their impacts on soil health, agronomical performance, and environmental risks will be evaluated. Environmental footprints will also be measured for selected products. We will identify technological, legislative, financial, and social barriers and enablers for the conversion of food processing residue streams into organic soil improvers and fertilising products, and use these results to analyse fairness throughout the LL value chains. Together with stakeholders, we will build communities and create networks to facilitate knowledge sharing of DeliSoil’s key exploitable results, empower interdisciplinary design processes to improve soil health through the valorisation of food by-products, and increase societal soil literacy. The Living Labs will share their solutions for using side-streams from vegetable, meat, insect cultivation, mixed food, tomato, olive oil, and wine industry actors. Our proposed Lighthouses will allow inter-European partnering and demonstrate improved waste management sites integrating optimal practices in a circular bioeconomy framework. We will work in close cooperation with other EU projects and the European Soil Observatory (EUSO) to ensure coordinated delivery of Soil Mission goals.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturevegetable growing
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsbioeconomy
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
00790 Helsinki
Finlandia