Figure 1.

Insights into global and European agricultural production in the context of the circular economy strategy based on the hierarchical waste model. Agricultural production of eight major crops at (A) global and European scales and (B) at an individual scale for the top six European producers. (C) Application of the circular economy model for the revalorization of agri-food waste to recover biomolecules of interest for food industry accomplishing (D) the first levels of the hierarchical waste model.