FAO has launched a new Inventory of Bioeconomy Indicators, an online tool designed to help countries and stakeholders translate bioeconomy strategies and plans into measurable, decision-ready evidence. The tool responds to a central challenge: how to monitor bioeconomy development and assess its sustainability in a credible, comparable and context-sensitive way.   The indicators inventory complements FAO’s 2025 publication Indicators for sustainable bioeconomy: Towards building a monitoring and assessment framework developed...

A sustainable bioeconomy offers a new economic paradigm. With agrifood systems at the heart of the bioeconomy, originating the bulk of the bioeconomy’s feedstock, bioeconomy has the potential to drive agrifood system transformation – while also greening other economic sectors by offering an alternative to fossil fuels.  Through bioeconomy, agrifood systems can...

Tshwane, South Africa – 18–20 September 2025.The G20 Initiative for Bioeconomy (GIB) concluded its third in-person meeting of 2025 last week in Tshwane (formerly known as Pretoria), South Africa, bringing together representatives from G20 members, other invited countries, and international organizations including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...

An insect farm that turns unavoidable food waste into protein-rich animal feed – or clearing forested land for biofuel production – both could be considered part of bioeconomy, an economic system that uses renewable biological resources, such as plants, animals, and microorganisms, to produce food, feed, materials, and energy. But...