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ProjectFactsheetImplementing Bioeconomy to Support the Sustainable Development Goals - GCP/GLO/724/GER 2025
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No results found.The Sustainable Bioeconomy Guidelines (SBG) project aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve food security, growth must be decoupled from fossil fuel dependence. This can be achieved through sustainable consumption and improved resource use efficiency, with bioeconomy playing a key role. Bioeconomy involves producing goods and services from biomass, such as food, feed, fibre, biomaterials and bioenergy, and is gaining global interest with various countries developing holistic bioeconomy strategies. However, sustainable development of the bioeconomy is essential and requires guidelines to ensure environmental, economic, and social benefits, as well as good governance principles. In response, FAO supports countries in developing sustainable bioeconomy policies and strategies, focusing on agrifood systems transformation. FAO’s "Bioeconomy that works for People, Food Security and Climate" (BTW) programme includes analysing existing bioeconomy strategies, creating best-practice guidelines, and developing tools for sustainable bioeconomy development. The project had two phases: Phase 1 focused on stock-taking and gap analysis of sustainable bioeconomy worldwide, while Phase 2 aimed to implement sustainable bioeconomy principles. In July 2016, the German Ministry for Food and Agriculture (BMEL) reiterated its proposal to continue funding the development of sustainable bioeconomy guidelines as part of the BTW Programme. This second phase, entitled “Towards Sustainable Bioeconomy Guidelines”, focused on improving guidance on sustainable bioeconomy at a global, national and local levels to support FAO Member States and other stakeholders in sustainable bioeconomy operations. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetGuidelineTowards sustainable bioeconomy guidelines
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No results found.Bioeconomy is the production, utilization and conservation of biological resources, including related knowledge, science, technology, and innovation, to provide information, products, processes and services across all economic sectors aiming toward a sustainable economy’. Its cross-cutting nature offers a unique opportunity to comprehensively address interconnected societal challenges such as food and nutrition security, fossil-resource dependence, natural resource scarcity and climate change, while achieving sustainable economic development. However, developing bioeconomy as such is not sustainable per se. The development of an economy that is based on biomass resources faces several trade-offs. It is crucial that bioeconomy development does not hamper but rather strengthens food security as a basic human need and right, while also helping to achieve several other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Taking this into account, in January 2015, on the occasion of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture summit in Berlin, 62 Ministers of Agriculture recommended that FAO coordinates international work on sustainable bioeconomy. To that end, the German Ministry for Food and Agriculture has provided support to FAO to develop Sustainable Bioeconomy Guidelines. The project aims to develop sustainable bioeconomy guidelines to assist countries as well as producers and users of biomass and bioproducts in developing and implementing sustainable bioeconomy strategies, policies and programmes. -
Book (series)Technical studyAn Overview on How Sustainability is Addressed in Official Bioeconomy Strategies at International, National and Regional Levels 2016
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No results found.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.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureSustainable food systems: Concept and framework 2018
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No results found.The brief will be uploaded in the Sustainable Food Value Chain Knowledge Platform website http://www.fao.org/sustainable-food-value-chains/home/en/ and it will be distributed internally through ES Updates, the Sustainable Food Value Chain Technical Network and upcoming Sustainable Food Value Chain trainings in Suriname, Namibia, HQ and Egypt. -
Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable
2022This year’s report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only eight years away from 2030, but the distance to reach many of the SDG 2 targets is growing wider each year. There are indeed efforts to make progress towards SDG 2, yet they are proving insufficient in the face of a more challenging and uncertain context. The intensification of the major drivers behind recent food insecurity and malnutrition trends (i.e. conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks) combined with the high cost of nutritious foods and growing inequalities will continue to challenge food security and nutrition. This will be the case until agrifood systems are transformed, become more resilient and are delivering lower cost nutritious foods and affordable healthy diets for all, sustainably and inclusively. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookClimate change and food security: risks and responses 2015
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End hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition are at the heart of the sustainable development goals. The World has committed to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2030. But climate change is undermining the livelihoods and food security of the rural poor, who constitute almost 80 percent of the world’s poor. The effects of climate change on our ecosystems are already severe and widespread. Climate change brings a cascade of impacts from agroecosystems to livelihoods. Climate change impacts directly agroecosystems, which in turn has a potential impact on agricultural production, which drives economic and social impacts, which impact livelihoods. In other words, impacts translate from climate to the environment, to the productive sphere, to economic and social dimensions. Therefore, ensuring food security in the face of climate change is among the most daunting challenges facing humankind. Action is urgently needed now to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience of food systems to ensure food security and good nutrition for all.