Bioeconomy pathways: Experience from Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Glatzel, Katrin; Virchow, Detlef; Nakitto, Aisha Musaazi S.; Niyonsenga, Seraphin; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Srivastava, Nandita; Kashandula, Progress; Ecuru, Julius; Osano, Philip

Bioeconomy pathways: Experience from Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Autores

Glatzel, Katrin

Virchow, Detlef

Nakitto, Aisha Musaazi S.

Editor

AKADEMIYA2063
International Food Policy Research Institute

Descripción

In 2022, the Malabo Montpellier Panel published a report that made the case for African countries to embrace a bioeconomy approach to meet their agrifood systems transformation and economic growth ambitions. The Panel systematically identified four African countries at the forefront of transitioning to a bioeconomy to better understand how different governments choose their own context-specific bioeconomy development pathways (Malabo Montpellier Panel 2022). Building on this analysis, this chapter provides a snapshot of how different countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are choosing their own context-specific bioeconomy entry points and pathways. It provides an update of the analyses by the Panel on the cases of Ghana, Namibia, and Uganda. In addition, this chapter shows how Brazil and Thailand have embraced a bioeconomy transition to support learning not just across borders, but across regions.