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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetTowards sustainable bioeconomy guidelines
Brief
2019Also available in:
No results found.Bioeconomy is the production, utilization and conservation of biological resources, including related knowledge, science, technology, and innovation, to provide information, products, processes and services across all economic sectors aiming toward a sustainable economy’. Its cross-cutting nature offers a unique opportunity to comprehensively address interconnected societal challenges such as food and nutrition security, fossil-resource dependence, natural resource scarcity and climate change, while achieving sustainable economic development. However, developing bioeconomy as such is not sustainable per se. The development of an economy that is based on biomass resources faces several trade-offs. It is crucial that bioeconomy development does not hamper but rather strengthens food security as a basic human need and right, while also helping to achieve several other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Taking this into account, in January 2015, on the occasion of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture summit in Berlin, 62 Ministers of Agriculture recommended that FAO coordinates international work on sustainable bioeconomy. To that end, the German Ministry for Food and Agriculture has provided support to FAO to develop Sustainable Bioeconomy Guidelines. The project aims to develop sustainable bioeconomy guidelines to assist countries as well as producers and users of biomass and bioproducts in developing and implementing sustainable bioeconomy strategies, policies and programmes. -
Book (series)Indicators to monitor and evaluate the sustainability of bioeconomy
Overview and a proposed way forward
2019Also available in:
No results found.FAO has been working for many years on non-food biomass products (including sustainable bioenergy) and biotechnology, and it received a mandate to coordinate international work on ‘food first’ sustainable bioeconomy by 62 Ministers present at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2015. Moreover, FAO has received support from the Government of Germany to develop guidelines on sustainable bioeconomy development (Phase 1: 2016; Phase 2: 2017-mid 2020). This involves work on the bioeconomy monitoring, including the selection and use of indicators. The ultimate aim of FAO’s work on sustainability indicators is to provide technical assistance to countries and stakeholders in developing and monitoring sustainable bioeconomy, more particularly on identifying suitable indicators in line with the Sustainable Bioeconomy Aspirational Principles and related Criteria, agreed upon in 2016 by the International Sustainable Bioeconomy Working Group created in the context of FAO’s project on Sustainable Bioeconomy Guidelines. These indicators shall help both policy makers and producers/manufacturers in monitoring and evaluating the sustainability of their bioeconomy strategies and interventions. In order to cover all the relevant aspects and issues for a sustainable bioeconomy, our approach identifies impact categories from the sustainable bioeconomy principles and criteria. The monitoring approach suggested is balanced, since it considers the three sustainability dimensions (social, economic and environmental); at the same time, it proposes to use a limited set of core indicators, to keep the monitoring feasible and cost-effective. The suggested methodology starts with a review of existing monitoring approaches to identify already available indicators, from which the authors. -
BookletSustainable and circular bioeconomy in the biodiversity agenda
Opportunities to conserve and restore biodiversity in agrifood systems through bioeconomy practices
2022Also available in:
No results found.The sustainable management of biodiversity contributes to addressing food and nutrition security, enhancing resilience, and providing livelihoods to local and indigenous communities that can diversify their activities and generate income. This paper aims to: 1. provide examples of bioeconomy practices, bioproducts and successful case studies that can support biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration, accounting for the trade-offs involved in the developmnet of a bioeconomy; and 2. raise general awareness on the role bioeconomy can play in supporting biodiversity under the different sectors of agrifood systems and bio-based industry, in line with the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework discussions, as well as the FAO strategies on biodiversity, climate change, and science and innovation.
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