Green biomass – protein production through bio-refining

The aim of this report is to summarize our present knowledge on the bio-technical as well as economic issues in relation to value creation of green biomass in Denmark. This includes many types of knowledge from the different types of actors included in activities going on at present in this field. To start the work, a kick-off workshop was held in Copenhagen in January 2016, where a range of stakeholders from many fields enthusiastically expressed their views and ideas as regards what to include and take into account in the report. We have tried to include these as far as possible. Thus a number of persons have contributed directly in the writing process whereas as others have contributed with particular overall insight.

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