
13th February 2025 9.30AM – 10.30AM (CET)
Online via Teams (register here)
Join us for a webinar to explore data-driven tools for early estimating the valorisation potential of agricultural and secondary by-products at an early stage. This session offers practical insights, data, and tools for researchers, farmers, traders, and cooperatives.
The methodology covers key aspects of sustainability by design, addressing issues on economic and environmental impacts, safety, and resource use efficiency at an early stage. Using data-driven tools, we’ll present insights into residue compositions, availability by country, and conversions into high-value products, along with early estimates of yields and climate impacts. Practical examples will demonstrate how to identify the best applications for specific residues and highlight promising residues for applications like PHA production or biomethane generation. Additionally, we’ll facilitate discussions to develop new ideas and cases, including those relevant to Agriloop and other projects.
This webinar offers a platform to gain insights, address challenges, and collaborate on innovative solutions. Register using the link below to participate.
Speakers
Jan Broeze, Senior Scientist Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group
Jan is a senior scientist in the field of food supply chains and food systems, aiming to understand relationships between supply chain configurations and the effectiveness of fulfilling the market demands for food and non-food products. A holistic view on food chains and the whole food supply chain is essential to generate the intended effects of any intervention. For that, Jan is focussing on the connection between agricultural production and markets, in formal and informal supply systems, including ineffectiveness (like food losses) and impacts (carbon footprint of supplied food products).
Marta Rodriguez Illera, Scientist in Sustainable Food Processing, Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group
Marta Rodriguez Illera is a scientist from Wageningen Food & Biobased Research at Wageningen University and Research (WUR). Her research focuses on supporting the transition to more sustainable and circular food processing chains with a link to food product quality and functionality by developing assessment tools and frameworks. Marta has broad experience both from industry and academia contributing to new process design, performing assessment and predictive models from detailed unit operations to chain modeling, covering aspects such as choice of technology, process settings, microbiological and nutritional quality predictions, process economics, and environmental impacts. With a focus on research, she worked at several Dutch food research institutes: Nizo Foods Research and Friesland Campina’s innovation center, and she obtained her PhD at the Food Processing Engineering Group of WUR. Before her food experience in the Netherlands, she studied Chemical Engineering in Spain at the University of Alicante with a Processes specialization at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.