Farmed insects for sustainable food systems

Parodi, Alejandro

doi:10.18174/570891

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“…BSF was selected as a representative species for (i) being already produced at industrial scale with available data e.g. regarding direct emissions (Parodi Parodi, 2022;Smetana et al, 2019), (ii) being recognized as a versatile residual biomasses converter (van Huis and Oonincx, 2017) and (iii) presenting a potential to supply both food (BSFfood) and feed (BSFfeed) markets. The process ow diagrams corresponding to the selected BSF set-up is displayed in Figure 2, while the unit operation, technological parameters, background data and calculation details are provided in the section SI.4.4.…”

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Waste reintroduced in the kitchen: life cycles inventories of representative waste-to-nutrition pathways

Javourez,

Tituta-Barna,

Hamelin

2024

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Waste recovery technologies targeting the formulation of edible ingredients such as insects, microorganisms, or proteins extracts, are increasingly promoted to mitigate global environmental impacts. Yet, many conversion pathways exist, and little is known about the plausibility, the implications, and the environmental relevance of deploying them: a comparative modeling approach is missing. To this end, we reviewed the available data and literature documenting these emerging biorefineries and compiled it into six harmonized life cycle inventory (LCI) models estimating the forecasted performances of 16 representative “waste-to-nutrition” pathways in function of 18 input stream characteristics and 293 technological parameters. Illustrated on eleven case studies, the results quantify the untapped potential of transforming waste into novel food and feed and unravel the intrinsic trade-offs between their energy intensity, their yield and the biochemical composition of input streams. We show that several scenarios are possible to achieve France’s protein feed autonomy by scaling and combining different waste-to-nutrition pathways, but that each scenario would lead to different consequences on energy systems and on bioresources’ mobilization requirements. As provided, the LCI models capture the implications associated with these waste recovery technologies and are ready to support their prospective life cycle assessment.

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Waste reintroduced in the kitchen: life cycles inventories of representative waste-to-nutrition pathways

Javourez,

Tituta-Barna,

Hamelin

2024

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“…Further detailed in the SI, BSF was selected as a representative specie of insect farming for (i) being already produced at industrial scale with available data e.g. regarding direct emissions(Parodi Parodi, 2022;Smetana et al, 2019), (ii) being recognized as versatile residual biomasses converters (van Huis and Oonincx, 2017) and (iii) their potential to supply both food (BSF_food) and feed (BSF_feed) markets. Therefore, the following BSF farming LCI model builds on the framework provided bySpykman et al, (2021),…”

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Waste reintroduced in the kitchen: life cycles inventories of representative waste-to-nutrition pathways

Javourez,

Tituta-Barna,

Hamelin

2023

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Waste recovery technologies targeting the formulation of edible ingredients such as insects, microorganisms, or proteins extracts, are increasingly promoted to mitigate global environmental impacts. Yet, many conversion pathways exist, and little is known about the plausibility, the implications, and the environmental relevance of deploying them: a comparative framework is missing. To this end, we reviewed the available data and literature documenting these emerging biorefineries and compiled it into six harmonized life cycle inventory (LCI) models estimating the forecasted performances of 16 representative “waste-to-nutrition” pathways in function of 18 input stream characteristics and 293 process parameters. Illustrated on eleven case studies, the results quantify the untapped potential of transforming waste into novel food and feed, but also precisely document why these are no free lunches by unravelling the intrinsic trade-offs between their energy intensity, their yield and the initial composition-structure of input streams. We show that several scenarios are possible to achieve France’s protein feed autonomy by scaling and combining different waste-to-nutrition pathways, but that each scenario would lead to different implications for the energy system and in terms of biomass mobilization. As provided, the LCI models capture the implications associated with these waste recovery technologies and are ready to support their prospective life cycle assessment.

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Farmed insects for sustainable food systems

Cited by 2 publications

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Waste reintroduced in the kitchen: life cycles inventories of representative waste-to-nutrition pathways

Waste reintroduced in the kitchen: life cycles inventories of representative waste-to-nutrition pathways

Waste reintroduced in the kitchen: life cycles inventories of representative waste-to-nutrition pathways

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