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

Glatzel, Katrin; Virchow, Detlef; Nakitto, Aisha Musaazi S.; Niyonsenga, Seraphin; Babu, Suresh; Srivastava, Nandita; and Kashandula, Progress. 2024. Bioeconomy pathways: Experience from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In Advancing the climate and bioeconomy agenda in Africa for resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, eds. Getaw Tadesse, Katrin Glatzel, and Moumini Savadogo. Chapter 9, Pp. 116-149. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155083

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.