Description du projet
Transformer les flux secondaires de la transformation alimentaire en ressources précieuses pour les sols
Les flux secondaires issus de la transformation des aliments s’accumulent et affligent notre monde moderne, tandis que la santé des sols se détériore. Le projet DeliSoil, financé par l’UE, ouvre une voie transdisciplinaire dans le cadre d’un changement de paradigme. Le projet entend coconcevoir des processus qui non seulement minimisent les flux secondaires de la transformation des aliments, mais les convertissent également en améliorateurs de sol sur mesure grâce à une approche de bioéconomie circulaire. Cette initiative révolutionnaire comprend un réseau de cinq laboratoires vivants régionaux, chacun adapté à un contexte spécifique. Les technologies de pointe y seront exploitées afin de développer des améliorateurs de sol sur mesure. Des évaluations rigoureuses menées dans des laboratoires de pointe garantiront la stabilité, la biosécurité et l’intégrité moléculaire. Les analyses d’impact sur la santé des sols, les performances agricoles et les risques environnementaux suivront, offrant une compréhension globale des avantages potentiels.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- 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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