Sustainable and circular bioeconomy for food systems transformation

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22/03/2023
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The Bioeconomy Talks series features interviews with experts on bioeconomy themes that are linked to agrifood systems transformation. Jorge Alvar Beltrán holds a Ph.D. degree in climate resilient crops in hotspot regions of climate change (University of Florence). Arianna Gialletti has an MSc in climate change and environmental policy (University of...
21/03/2023
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The Bioeconomy Talks series features interviews with experts on bioeconomy themes that are linked to agrifood systems transformation. Sven Walter is a senior forestry officer at FAO. He is forestry focal point for the FAO programme priority area on Bioeconomy for Sustainable Food and Agriculture. What got you interested in forestry? There were...
07/03/2023
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The Bioeconomy Talks series features interviews with experts on bioeconomy themes that are linked to agrifood systems transformation Marta Gomez San Juan studied at the Technical University of Madrid (Spain), the University of Illinois (USA) and Cranfield University (UK). Her background is in agricultural engineering and biosystems. For the past eight...
28/02/2023
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Organization addresses conference on nexus of bioeconomy and food security The start of 2023 has seen renewed enthusiasm at European Union (EU) level on the importance of bioeconomy as a driver for sustainable development. Recently, FAO participated at a conference on “Circular Bioeconomy: The pathway to an innovative, resource efficient and...
21/02/2023
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The assets add to growing list of FAO multilingual bioeconomy material Bioeconomy for sustainable food and agriculture is one of 20 programme priority areas in the FAO Strategic Framework 2022–31. But what is bioeconomy? And how can we explain the concept in an easy-to-understand way? To address these questions, FAO has developed...