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Design of Value Chains for Microalgal Biorefinery at Industrial Scale: Process Integration and Techno-Economic Analysis....

Published in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology

The objective of this work was to identify industrial scenarios for the most promising microalgal biorefinery value chains on the basis of product selection, yields, and techno-economic performance, using biological characteristics of algae species. The development, value creation, and validation of several new processing routes with applications i...

Youth entrepreneurship in all nodes of the bean value chain

Economic complexity, product space network and Quebec's global competitiveness

This exploratory study uncovers how the economic complexity of local production and global connectivity contribute to a subnational region's competitiveness and sustainable development. Addressing the knowledge generation and exchange processes orchestrated by global value chains, we demonstrate that the composition of a subnational region's produc...

Women at the center of cowpea value chain development in Nigeria

Published online: 11 Mar 2020 / M s. Hadja Salame Shaibu (Fig. 7.1) is a cowpea producer and processor in the Local Government Area of Dawakin Tofa. She grew up in a farming community where crop- livestock integration is a tradition. When she got married few decades ago, Salame continued farming and keeping livestock to support her new family, main...

Concluding remarks: the tropical legumes projects empowered communities in a wide variety of assets

Published online: 11 Mar 2020 / After 12 years of activity, the Tropical Legumes (TL) projects come to an end the year 2019. In addition to quantitative impact assessment, this publication brings to light various stakeholders’ own words about the kind of benefits they have made thanks to the TL projects. Research institutions, management and techni...

A brief overview of smallholder farmers' access to seed of improved legume varieties

Published online: 01 Mar 2020 / For decades, the vast majority of smallholder farmers in developing countries, mainly sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and to some extent South Asia (SA), heavily rely on non-improved and auto-saved variety seed, accounting for about 80% of their material used for planting. Though the seed use figures by farmers vary from on...

Impact stories and testimonies from diverse actors in groundnut value chain in Tanzania

Published online: 11 Mar 2020 / Adamu, a groundnut farmer from Maugura village, Masasi, shared his success story for being involved in TL projects . “I was taught how to grow the seeds, carry out diagnosis, how to store them, among other things. This year, there are some seeds that I have begun putting on the ground so that I can continue conductin...

Transitioning European protein-rich food consumption and production towards more sustainable patterns-strategies and pol...

Open Access Journal; Published online: 04 Mar 2020 / Global and European diets have shifted towards greater consumption of animal proteins. Recent studies urge reversals of these trends and call for a rapid transition towards adoption of more plant-based diets. This paper explored mechanisms to increase the production and consumption of plant-prote...

Common bean value chain actors share their feeling about TL projects in Tanzania

Published online: 11 Mar 2020 / Apart from groundnut, Tropical Legumes I, II, and III also focused on common beans in Tanzania. In early April 2018, we visited Selian Agricultural Research Institute in Arusha, which is in the Northeast of Tanzania, and about 100 km from the Kenyan border. We also visited Mbeya, a town in the Southwest of Tanzania, ...