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Copernicus InstituteResearch Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation

Circular grain and feed chain: Opportunities and

Challenges

Prof. dr. Jacqueline Cramer

Universiteit Utrecht


Resource efficiency and scarcity: a major challenge in the 21th century

Way forward: from a linear to a circular economy

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From a linear to a circular economy


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Next to direct financial benefits, also indirect merits

Direct financial benefits Indirect merits

• Cost savings in EU 380‐630 billion $/year (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, (2012)

• Savings 2.9 – 3.7 trillion$ in 2030 by increase of resource productivity worldwide (McKinsey, 2011)

• Security of supply• Development of new

knowledge • Trigger for innovation• Creation of new

businesses• Environmental merits


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New financial and organizational models: What?


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PEOPLE

Sustainable sourcing: priority 1


1. Global sustainable sourcing• Bulk import: responsible & sustainable feed

materials (People, Planet, Profit)

• Examples: RoundTable on Responsible Soy & Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil; Fefac Soy Sourcing Guidelines

• Societal pressure will increase to be transparent for all feed materials and move from mass balance to source based evidence

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2. Regional sustainable sourcing

• Societal demand for glocalization of the economy and regional production

• Example: Preferably local feed than import soy? (Friends of the Earth Netherlands)

• Response of grain and feed sector: pro-active approach wiser than defensive statement


3. Sourcing via other inputs

• Technological innovations in feed materials, novel feed and high value recycling: key

• Higher resource-efficiency of feed materials

• Production of feed in the lab: novel feed

• Production of feed (e.g. proteins) via insects

• Resources for feed production via high value recycling of organic co-products

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High value use of residual streams from agro-sector (human and animal consumption)


High value use of residual streams from food-sector (human and animal consumption)

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Reuse of former foodstuffs for feed


Sustainable feed production and processing: priority 2

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1. Production based on principles of circularity

• Production facility: energy neutral

• All residual streams: reused and recycled with high value

• No emissions to water, air and soil

• Production location: green and healthy

• Transport: sustainable

Challenge: show the progress made


2. Processing based on principles of circularity

• Farm: energy neutral

• All residual streams: reused and recycled with high value (‘back to the roots’)

• Resource efficiency of animal feed processing

• Manure processed into resources and bio-energy via fermentation

Challenge: show the progress made

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Sustainable logistics and transport: priority 3


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1. Initiators with guts and

support)

2. Cooperation in product

chain (includingend‐users)

3. New financial

arrangements

4. Additional tailor‐made incentives

Conclusion: there are promising opportunities for a circular economy.

The main drivers are:

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