Hydroponics is a soilless cultivation technique in which plants are grown in a nutrient
solution typically made from mineral fertilizers. This alternative to soil farming can be …

Assessing reactive nitrogen (N r) flows resulting from agricultural crop production systems
(ACPS) with LCA requires regionalization. However, methodological approaches for …

The production of fertilizers has been evolving steadily in the last 300 years. It involves a
high number of commodities and reagents that share a large portion of the costs and …

Anaerobic digestates from sewage sludge (SSADs) are a by-product of the wastewater
treatment process that still preserves a certain agronomic interest for its richness in plant …

Recovered fertilizers (RFs), in the form of digestate and digestate-derived ammonium
sulfate, were produced from organic wastes by thermophilic anaerobic digestion (AD) at full …

Nitrogen (N) is a macronutrient that, together with P and K, is vital for improving agricultural
yields, but its excessive use in crop fertilisation and presence in treated wastewater and …

Manure treatment to recover nutrients presents a great challenge to delocalize nutrients from
overloaded areas to those needing such nutrients. To do this, approaches for the treatment …

Rice feeds more than 50% of the population worldwide, representing a great energy
contribution in low-income families. The exaggerated use of synthetic chemical fertilizers to …

Societal Impact Statement Increasing crop productivity is often proposed as a key goal for
meeting the food security demands of a growing global population. However, achieving high …

In order to meet the ever-increasing demand of food in the near future, the agriculture sector
is anticipated to expand grain, vegetable, fiber, and biomass energy production within the …