Dear Colleagues,

Major global problems, such as climate change, resource degradation and depletion, and environmental degradation threaten our food supply, food security, and food quality. The concept of a circular bioeconomy combines economic growth with environmental compatibility. It thus represents a framework for a sustainable structural transformation toward a modern, resource-efficient, and competitive economy based on sustainably produced renewable raw materials as well as on biobased innovations.

The essential progress in recent decades in understanding biological processes and systems will contribute significantly to the replacement of easy available fossil resources by producing solutions that link climate protection with economic development as well as with securing global food supply.

There is high potential for agricultural production and the food industry to contribute to a sustainable bioeconomy which is, e.g., based on the

• Substitution of fossile resources by renewable biobased or secondary raw materials and organic residual materials;
• Avoidance of nutrient losses;
• Creation of greener and more cost-effective value chains for industrial food processes;
• Production of innovative sustainable biobased and biodegradable products;
• Turning of biowaste and residues into valuable resources;
• Increase of the ecoefficiency of processes

This Special Issue invites conceptual and theoretical contributions, as well as original research papers, comprehensive reviews or case studies along technical, environmental, natural, and societal topics.

We are especially interested in research that describes innovative agricultural and industrial strategies or processes for food production from renewable biobased resources from land and sea, fostering ecoefficiency, climate protection, and sustainable innovations for a low-carbon economy.

We particularly encourage authors to submit articles of interdisciplinary nature that redefine problems and generate ideas that cut across disciplines and focus on methods, models, and analyses in the context of a sustainable circular bioeconomy.

This Special Issue will include but is not limited to the following topics.

• sustainable agricultural transformation toward a circular bioeconomy;
• increase of ecoefficiency;
• emission reduction strategies in agricultural production and food processing;
• innovative renewable biological resources from land and sea;
• new management strategies for sustainable food production;
• substitution of fossil resources in food industry;
• cascade systems;
• life cycle assessments;
• renewable raw materials;
• biobased innovations;
• waste reduction or prevention in production and processing;
• strategies for pesticide reduction;
• avoidance of nutrient losses;
• strategies to bring forward a climate neutral agriculture and food industry;
• societal benefits of a circular bioeconomy

Dr. Vera Tekken
Dr. Tabea Lissner
Guest Editors

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