A critical review on livestock manure biorefinery technologies: Sustainability, challenges, and future perspectives

B Khoshnevisan, N Duan, P Tsapekos… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
An ever increasing demand for animal protein products has posed serious challenges for
managing the increasing quantities of livestock manure. The choice of treatment …

[HTML][HTML] The battle for biomass: a systematic review of food-feed-fuel competition

A Muscat, EM De Olde, IJM de Boer, R Ripoll-Bosch - Global Food Security, 2020 - Elsevier
We review 75 studies on the competition for biomass and production resources such as
land, water, labour and capital across food, feed and fuel production. We identified seven …

Life cycle assessment of manure biogas production: A review

EMM Esteves, AMN Herrera, VPP Esteves… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Manure is a livestock residue that causes high environmental burdens in different
categories. Its usage in biogas production is an environmentally beneficial way not only to …

Advances and challenges of life cycle assessment (LCA) of greenhouse gas removal technologies to fight climate changes

P Goglio, AG Williams, N Balta-Ozkan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Several greenhouse gas removal technologies (GGRTs), also called negative emissions
technologies (NET) have been proposed to help meet the Paris Climate Agreement targets …

Levelling foods for priority micronutrient value can provide more meaningful environmental footprint comparisons

R Katz-Rosene, F Ortenzi, GA McAuliffe… - Communications Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
A growing literature in Life Cycle Assessment seeks to better inform consumers, food
policymakers, food supply chain actors, and other relevant stakeholders about how …

Accounting for soil carbon changes in agricultural life cycle assessment (LCA): a review

P Goglio, WN Smith, BB Grant, RL Desjardins… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2015 - Elsevier
Soil carbon sequestration, a climate change mitigation option for agriculture, can either
increase or decrease as a result of land management change (LMC) and land use change …

Agricultural anaerobic digestion plants: What LCA studies pointed out and what can be done to make them more environmentally sustainable

J Bacenetti, C Sala, A Fusi, M Fiala - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) has been recognized as a viable solution to produce renewable
energy and to reduce global warming especially when secondary feedstock and/or wastes …

Life cycle assessment of orange peel waste management

V Negro, B Ruggeri, D Fino, D Tonini - Resources, Conservation and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The management of orange peel waste constitutes an economic and environmental problem
in regions in which there are important citrus processing industries, as is the case of …

Environmental implications of the use of agro‐industrial residues for biorefineries: Application of a deterministic model for indirect land‐use changes

D Tonini, L Hamelin, TF Astrup - Gcb Bioenergy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biorefining agro‐industrial biomass residues for bioenergy production represents an
opportunity for both sustainable energy supply and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …

[HTML][HTML] Food, energy or biomaterials? Policy coherence across agro-food and bioeconomy policy domains in the EU

A Muscat, EM de Olde, Z Kovacic, IJM de Boer… - Environmental science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Union (EU) envisions a shift towards a bioeconomy to address
challenges such as reducing dependence on non-renewable resources, managing natural …