BIO4AFRICA

... combatting poverty, while driving inclusive and sustainable rural development. The project will support the deployment of the bioeconomy in rural Africa via the development of bio-based solutions and value chains with a circular approach to drive the cascading use of local resources and diversify the income of farmers. Our focus is on transferring simple, small-scale, and robust bio-based techs adapted to local biomass, needs and contexts, including green biorefinery, pyrolysis, hydrothermal carbonisation, briquetting, pelletising, bio-composites, and bioplastics production... In doing so we aim to empower farmers to sustainably produce a variety of higher value bio-based products and energy, including animal feed, fertiliser, pollutant absorbents, construction materials, packaging, solid fuel for cooking, and ingredients for biogas production, significantly improving the environmental, economic and social performance of their forage agri-food systems. BIO4Africa has set up four..