This success story relates to the use of agricultural innovation to address four key challenges : climate change; sustainable natural resource management; food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition; and job creation, with a focus on youth. It is part of a booklet prepared by FAO’s Office for Corporate Communication, with support from the Secretariat of the International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers: Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Headquarters in Rome, 21-23 November 2018, and the Innovation Fair presenters. It was a unique space to explore key questions and issues of agricultural innovation around the world.

This overview is the first output of the first phase of this sustainable bioeconomy guidelines programme. The overview concerns twenty bioeconomy strategies, at international, national and sub-national levels. It analyses how these strategies have addressed sustainability issues. The report also provides a brief discussion on approaches used to develop bioeconomy strategies. Finally, it also discusses 10 action plans related to some of the bioeconomy strategies.