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An Overview on How Sustainability is Addressed in Official Bioeconomy Strategies at International, National and Regional Levels

Year of publication 2016

Pages 48 p.

Author Olivier Dubois and Marta Gomez San Juan

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-109364-1

Series number 63

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This report provides an overview of about 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 the action plans of 10 action plans related to some of these strategies,and some comncluding remarks.

Language English

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