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From Waste Streams to New Resources
Published Jan 13, 2026In PLENTY’s Work Package 1, Aratrika Ray works at the intersection of enzyme technology and circular food systems. With a PhD in Food Engineering and Technology from the Institute of Chemical Technolo...
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Turning Data into Insight for Circular Change
Published Jan 13, 2026For Joar Stephansson, food has always been more than just nourishment — it’s been a interest that now drives his scientific career. With a background in biotechnology and a master’s degree focused on ...
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Meet the Researcher Designing Future Proteins
Published Jan 13, 2026Maija is a postdoctoral researcher in PLENTY work package 3 with a background in food science and technology. She comes from Helsinki and completed her PhD at the University of Helsinki, spending a si...
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Understanding Society to Reduce Food Losses and Waste
Published Nov 20, 2025Reducing food loss and waste is not only a technical challenge — it requires seeing the food system as a whole. Within PLENTY, Work Package 3 Society (WP3) examines the social, ethical, and health-rel...
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Researcher warning: This is when the Swedish food supply will collapse
Photo: Tara Clark, Unsplash Published Sep 09, 2025In Dagens Industri, our colleagues Rebecka Milestad (FOI / KTH) and Francisco Vilaplana, director of the PLENTY Centre for Symbiotic and Circular Food Provisioning, discuss how today's self-sufficienc...
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More than technology: Barbro Fröding on the importance of food ethics
Barbro Fröding. Photo by: Maria Fredriksson. Published May 13, 2025When discussing the future of food and sustainable food systems, the focus often lands on innovative, technological solutions. For Barbro Fröding, a senior researcher at the Division of Philosophy at ...
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New research centre to strengthen Sweden’s food supply chain
The byproduct from rapeseed oil production is rich in dietary fibers, antioxidants, and protein. It could be used for human consumption, says Francisco Vilaplana, center director of the newly established PLENTY. Photo: Niklas Johansson/Unsplash. Published Nov 28, 2024Recent years have exposed significant vulnerabilities in both Sweden’s and the global food supply chain, driven by extreme weather, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, KTH Ro...
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