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Creating sustainable bioeconomies: The bioscience revolution in Europe and Africa

This book explores the prospects for biosciences and how its innovation has the potential to help countries in the North (Europe) and the South (Africa) to move towards resource efficient agriculture and sustainable bioeconomies.

Francis X. Johnson, Ivar Virgin / Published on 23 August 2016
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Virgin, I. and Morris, J., eds. (2017). Creating Sustainable Bioeconomies: The Bioscience Revolution in Europe and Africa. Routledge, Abingdon, UK.

The growing global demand for food, feed and bio-based renewable material is changing the conditions for agricultural production worldwide. At the same time, revolutionary achievements in the field of biosciences are contributing to a transition whereby bio-based alternatives for energy and materials are becoming more competitive.

Throughout the book, the situations of Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa will be compared and contrasted, and opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration are explored. The chapters have been written by high profile authors and deal with a wide range of issues affecting the development of bioeconomies on both continents. This book compares and contrasts the situations of these two regions as they endeavour to develop knowledge based bioeconomies.

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SEI researchers have co-authored three chapters in this book:

SEI authors

Francis X. Johnson
Francis X. Johnson

Senior Research Fellow

SEI Asia

Ivar Virgin
Ivar Virgin

Senior Research Fellow

SEI Headquarters

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