Securing renewable resource supplies for changing market demands in a bio-based economy

Visions of Sustainability in Bioeconomy Research

“…Templer et al [89] Interface Focus Research and Development III Ten Bos et al [90] Carbohydrate Polymers Research and Development III Tsiropoulos et al [91] Journal of Cleaner Production Processing and Technology I Vaaje-Kolstad et al [92] Science Processing and Technology II Van Dam et al [93] Industrial Crops and Products Resources II Vaneeckhaute et al [94] Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Processing and Technology II Vaneeckhaute et al [95] Biomass and Bioenergy Environmental impact I Vaneeckhaute et al [96] Biomass and Bioenergy Environmental impact II Vanholme et al [97] Frontiers in plant science Processing and Technology II Vitasari et al [98] Bioresource Technology Processing and Technology II Voll et al [99] Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining Processing and Technology III Wellisch et al [6] Biofuels …”

“…As in the first category, some papers assume that renewable resources are generally sustainable [6,28,53,78,87,93,97]. Furthermore, 14 papers argue that sustainability should be a goal of the transition to a bioeconomy [4,6,19,46,60,61,64,70,73,75,78,86,93,100], and seven state that it should be a central element in a bioeconomy [4,6,33,49,50,58,85]. A wide range of conditions is described.…”

“…Finally, some argue that land surfaces not used or unusable for food production should be used for the production of non-food biomass production [34,65,97]. Generally, the land availability and land use competition is described by many as a problem or even the limiting factor for the development of a bioeconomy [5,19,22,24,29,33,34,44,51,52,56,57,[63][64][65]71,75,77,81,82,84,89,90,93], and the competition with food production is the most described example. An often-suggested solution for the land use competition is the use of marginal land surfaces for non-food biomass production [33,34,52,65,81,97], avoiding the competition with traditional food production.…”

La sostenibilidad en el diseño de cadenas de suministro de biocombustibles

“…En este sentido, las tecnologías de producción y logística de los sistemas agrícolas destinados a alimentos, artículos no alimentarios y energía deben ser abordadas desde la seguridad alimentaria, la producción de energía verde, el desarrollo de productos sostenibles, la gestión de residuos y el reciclaje; de ahí que el enfoque de la cadena de suministro sea fundamental para integrar estos requerimientos en la producción agrícola, la transformación, la distribución y el consumo de los biocombustibles [36].…”

Opportunities for a Bio-based Economy in the Netherlands

“…Agriculture may grasp the opportunities that are generated by the achievement of food self-sufficiency in Europe [7][8][9][10][11]. While the cost of agricultural land is high in the Netherlands, the sector is well organised with very short links between R&D and the industry.…”