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The bioeconomy approach can support the transformation of agricultural and food systems.
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Publication: Handbook on the Bioeconomy
In the Handbook on the Bioeconomy, published in March 2025, leading international scientists present practical solution concepts and a reference guide with comprehensive analyses of this forward-looking research field.
The book comprises a wide range of topics reaching from bioeconomy strategies and concepts through demand and supply of biomass and bioeconomy products to innovation systems. Further focal themes which it addresses include the role of the bioeconomy in sustainability, the circular economy and ecosystem services as well as its relevance regarding the goals of the European Green Deal.
“The bioeconomy is the innovative answer to the major contemporary world-wide challenges in society,” states Professor Iris Lewandowski, co-author and Chief Bioeconomy Officer at Germany’s University of Hohenheim. “These include food security, ecosystem management, the limits of growth as well as combating climate change and environmental pollution.”
“With practical solution concepts for research and politics, this handbook is a reference guide for both specialists and students in the areas of agricultural and food economics, environmental, energy and natural resource economics as well as innovation economics,” says co-author and innovation economist Professor Andreas Pyka of the University of Hohenheim. “It forms a visible milestone in the debate over the bioeconomy and can give answers to questions such as where we are right now, what views there are, and where things are heading.”
Almost all of the Handbook’s chapters have been written with the participation of researchers from the European Bioeconomy University (EBU) – an alliance of eight leading European universities in the field of bioeconomy.
Since its founding in 2019, the EBU has pursued the goal of developing transformation towards a sustainable economy and society in Europe. It is educating and training a new generation of experts, promoting responsible research and bringing knowledge to designated areas of the economy and society. “Thus the Handbook reflects the EBU’s broad approach of seeking to represent the bioeconomy as a whole and advance it for the benefit of society,” Pyka concludes.
(University of Hohenheim/ile)
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The bioeconomy approach can support the transformation of agricultural and food systems.
Photo: © Attasit saentep/Shutterstock.com
Publication: Handbook on the Bioeconomy
In the Handbook on the Bioeconomy, published in March 2025, leading international scientists present practical solution concepts and a reference guide with comprehensive analyses of this forward-looking research field.
The book comprises a wide range of topics reaching from bioeconomy strategies and concepts through demand and supply of biomass and bioeconomy products to innovation systems. Further focal themes which it addresses include the role of the bioeconomy in sustainability, the circular economy and ecosystem services as well as its relevance regarding the goals of the European Green Deal.
“The bioeconomy is the innovative answer to the major contemporary world-wide challenges in society,” states Professor Iris Lewandowski, co-author and Chief Bioeconomy Officer at Germany’s University of Hohenheim. “These include food security, ecosystem management, the limits of growth as well as combating climate change and environmental pollution.”
“With practical solution concepts for research and politics, this handbook is a reference guide for both specialists and students in the areas of agricultural and food economics, environmental, energy and natural resource economics as well as innovation economics,” says co-author and innovation economist Professor Andreas Pyka of the University of Hohenheim. “It forms a visible milestone in the debate over the bioeconomy and can give answers to questions such as where we are right now, what views there are, and where things are heading.”
Almost all of the Handbook’s chapters have been written with the participation of researchers from the European Bioeconomy University (EBU) – an alliance of eight leading European universities in the field of bioeconomy.
Since its founding in 2019, the EBU has pursued the goal of developing transformation towards a sustainable economy and society in Europe. It is educating and training a new generation of experts, promoting responsible research and bringing knowledge to designated areas of the economy and society. “Thus the Handbook reflects the EBU’s broad approach of seeking to represent the bioeconomy as a whole and advance it for the benefit of society,” Pyka concludes.
(University of Hohenheim/ile)
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The bioeconomy approach can support the transformation of agricultural and food systems.
Photo: © Attasit saentep/Shutterstock.com
Publication: Handbook on the Bioeconomy
In the Handbook on the Bioeconomy, published in March 2025, leading international scientists present practical solution concepts and a reference guide with comprehensive analyses of this forward-looking research field.
The book comprises a wide range of topics reaching from bioeconomy strategies and concepts through demand and supply of biomass and bioeconomy products to innovation systems. Further focal themes which it addresses include the role of the bioeconomy in sustainability, the circular economy and ecosystem services as well as its relevance regarding the goals of the European Green Deal.
“The bioeconomy is the innovative answer to the major contemporary world-wide challenges in society,” states Professor Iris Lewandowski, co-author and Chief Bioeconomy Officer at Germany’s University of Hohenheim. “These include food security, ecosystem management, the limits of growth as well as combating climate change and environmental pollution.”
“With practical solution concepts for research and politics, this handbook is a reference guide for both specialists and students in the areas of agricultural and food economics, environmental, energy and natural resource economics as well as innovation economics,” says co-author and innovation economist Professor Andreas Pyka of the University of Hohenheim. “It forms a visible milestone in the debate over the bioeconomy and can give answers to questions such as where we are right now, what views there are, and where things are heading.”
Almost all of the Handbook’s chapters have been written with the participation of researchers from the European Bioeconomy University (EBU) – an alliance of eight leading European universities in the field of bioeconomy.
Since its founding in 2019, the EBU has pursued the goal of developing transformation towards a sustainable economy and society in Europe. It is educating and training a new generation of experts, promoting responsible research and bringing knowledge to designated areas of the economy and society. “Thus the Handbook reflects the EBU’s broad approach of seeking to represent the bioeconomy as a whole and advance it for the benefit of society,” Pyka concludes.
(University of Hohenheim/ile)
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The bioeconomy approach can support the transformation of agricultural and food systems.
Photo: © Attasit saentep/Shutterstock.com
Publication: Handbook on the Bioeconomy
In the Handbook on the Bioeconomy, published in March 2025, leading international scientists present practical solution concepts and a reference guide with comprehensive analyses of this forward-looking research field.
The book comprises a wide range of topics reaching from bioeconomy strategies and concepts through demand and supply of biomass and bioeconomy products to innovation systems. Further focal themes which it addresses include the role of the bioeconomy in sustainability, the circular economy and ecosystem services as well as its relevance regarding the goals of the European Green Deal.
“The bioeconomy is the innovative answer to the major contemporary world-wide challenges in society,” states Professor Iris Lewandowski, co-author and Chief Bioeconomy Officer at Germany’s University of Hohenheim. “These include food security, ecosystem management, the limits of growth as well as combating climate change and environmental pollution.”
“With practical solution concepts for research and politics, this handbook is a reference guide for both specialists and students in the areas of agricultural and food economics, environmental, energy and natural resource economics as well as innovation economics,” says co-author and innovation economist Professor Andreas Pyka of the University of Hohenheim. “It forms a visible milestone in the debate over the bioeconomy and can give answers to questions such as where we are right now, what views there are, and where things are heading.”
Almost all of the Handbook’s chapters have been written with the participation of researchers from the European Bioeconomy University (EBU) – an alliance of eight leading European universities in the field of bioeconomy.
Since its founding in 2019, the EBU has pursued the goal of developing transformation towards a sustainable economy and society in Europe. It is educating and training a new generation of experts, promoting responsible research and bringing knowledge to designated areas of the economy and society. “Thus the Handbook reflects the EBU’s broad approach of seeking to represent the bioeconomy as a whole and advance it for the benefit of society,” Pyka concludes.
(University of Hohenheim/ile)
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The bioeconomy approach can support the transformation of agricultural and food systems.
Photo: © Attasit saentep/Shutterstock.com
Publication: Handbook on the Bioeconomy
In the Handbook on the Bioeconomy, published in March 2025, leading international scientists present practical solution concepts and a reference guide with comprehensive analyses of this forward-looking research field.
The book comprises a wide range of topics reaching from bioeconomy strategies and concepts through demand and supply of biomass and bioeconomy products to innovation systems. Further focal themes which it addresses include the role of the bioeconomy in sustainability, the circular economy and ecosystem services as well as its relevance regarding the goals of the European Green Deal.
“The bioeconomy is the innovative answer to the major contemporary world-wide challenges in society,” states Professor Iris Lewandowski, co-author and Chief Bioeconomy Officer at Germany’s University of Hohenheim. “These include food security, ecosystem management, the limits of growth as well as combating climate change and environmental pollution.”
“With practical solution concepts for research and politics, this handbook is a reference guide for both specialists and students in the areas of agricultural and food economics, environmental, energy and natural resource economics as well as innovation economics,” says co-author and innovation economist Professor Andreas Pyka of the University of Hohenheim. “It forms a visible milestone in the debate over the bioeconomy and can give answers to questions such as where we are right now, what views there are, and where things are heading.”
Almost all of the Handbook’s chapters have been written with the participation of researchers from the European Bioeconomy University (EBU) – an alliance of eight leading European universities in the field of bioeconomy.
Since its founding in 2019, the EBU has pursued the goal of developing transformation towards a sustainable economy and society in Europe. It is educating and training a new generation of experts, promoting responsible research and bringing knowledge to designated areas of the economy and society. “Thus the Handbook reflects the EBU’s broad approach of seeking to represent the bioeconomy as a whole and advance it for the benefit of society,” Pyka concludes.
(University of Hohenheim/ile)
More information
The bioeconomy approach can support the transformation of agricultural and food systems.
Photo: © Attasit saentep/Shutterstock.com
Publication: Handbook on the Bioeconomy
In the Handbook on the Bioeconomy, published in March 2025, leading international scientists present practical solution concepts and a reference guide with comprehensive analyses of this forward-looking research field.
The book comprises a wide range of topics reaching from bioeconomy strategies and concepts through demand and supply of biomass and bioeconomy products to innovation systems. Further focal themes which it addresses include the role of the bioeconomy in sustainability, the circular economy and ecosystem services as well as its relevance regarding the goals of the European Green Deal.
“The bioeconomy is the innovative answer to the major contemporary world-wide challenges in society,” states Professor Iris Lewandowski, co-author and Chief Bioeconomy Officer at Germany’s University of Hohenheim. “These include food security, ecosystem management, the limits of growth as well as combating climate change and environmental pollution.”
“With practical solution concepts for research and politics, this handbook is a reference guide for both specialists and students in the areas of agricultural and food economics, environmental, energy and natural resource economics as well as innovation economics,” says co-author and innovation economist Professor Andreas Pyka of the University of Hohenheim. “It forms a visible milestone in the debate over the bioeconomy and can give answers to questions such as where we are right now, what views there are, and where things are heading.”
Almost all of the Handbook’s chapters have been written with the participation of researchers from the European Bioeconomy University (EBU) – an alliance of eight leading European universities in the field of bioeconomy.
Since its founding in 2019, the EBU has pursued the goal of developing transformation towards a sustainable economy and society in Europe. It is educating and training a new generation of experts, promoting responsible research and bringing knowledge to designated areas of the economy and society. “Thus the Handbook reflects the EBU’s broad approach of seeking to represent the bioeconomy as a whole and advance it for the benefit of society,” Pyka concludes.
(University of Hohenheim/ile)
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