“Biorefining well-chosen primary and residual raw materials will lead to the optimum economic and social use of all scarce resources, such as land, water, minerals and biodiversity, in a biobased economy.”
Johan Sanders

“The bright future of a biobased economy begins with plant breeding.”
Luisa Trindade

“A sustainable biobased economy calls for sustainable, highly productive agriculture worldwide.”
Adrie van der Werf

“For the future, when crude oil has been exhausted, I see the plant as a sustainable ‘chemical factory’. This requires the input from green biotechnology and biorefinery technology in the present.”
Ingrid van der Meer

“We are continually determining where we stand and what we can do better in livestock farming and in the chain. Otherwise we’ll have to switch to meat substitutes.”
Akke van de Zijpp

“The EU is rather more optimistic than we are regarding the extent to which the EU can produce its own biofuels. Even if that is the case, biofuel from Brazil will still be cheaper according to our calculations.”
Hans van Meijl

“By developing the Biobased Economy we are creating a ‘Green-Golden Age’ in which sustainable circular flows of income are closed and propelled by solar energy.”
Erik van Seventer

“The ocean’s biodiversity is extremely underutilised. A ‘blue revolution’ will only be possible by studying marine life, from genes to physiological performance.”
Johan Verreth