From agricultural production to bioeconomy value creation in Africa

Alphayo Lutta

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Experts call for coordinated action to unlock Africa’s bioeconomy

Feature / Africa's bioeconomy could power jobs, industry and climate resilience, but only if finance, knowledge and innovation start moving in step.

21 May 2026 / About Bioeconomy, Business, Ecosystems and Finance

Red squares on a dry dirt peninsula with deep blue water all around are chili peppers drying, with green forest on the mainland stretching to the gray blue horizon.

Policy barriers to climate finance flows in Asia: the case of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Thailand

SEI report / This report explores the barriers that hinder finance flows for climate adaptation in four Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal and Thailand.

24 April 2026 / About Climate policy and Finance

Through our lens: voices from fishing communities

Past event / This photo exhibition will showcase images by fisherfolk communities in Bangladesh.

09 April 2026 / About Food and agriculture

Towards a multilevel modelling framework for coproducing feasible and equitable portfolios of land-based climate mitigation technologies

Journal article / A multilevel framework combining combining models and stakeholder coproduction to identify feasible, equitable land-based climate mitigation portfolios.

8 April 2026 / About Climate policy, Land use and Mitigation

Young crop seedlings in rows across a tilled field, with a dirt track curving towards green rolling hills and trees under a blue sky.

Designing Moldova’s EU-aligned agricultural conditionality system

Project / SEI's Green Agenda project is helping Moldova design an EU-aligned agricultural conditionality system on its path towards EU accession.

2026 - 2027 / About Food and agriculture

Man selling vegetables at a Farmer's Market and organizing his products in baskets

AgroPolis

Project / AgroPolis co-creates value chain innovations and policies to scale agroecology and transform Europe’s food systems toward resilience and equity.

2026 - 2028 / About Food and agriculture, Public policy, Supply chains and Sustainable lifestyles

Amplifying Stories of Agroecology Practices and Principles (ASAPP) – Maramche Agroecological Village

Other publication / This leaflet illustrates how Maramche Agroecological Village applies the 13 agroecological principles in practical farming settings.

27 March 2026 / About Ecosystems and Food and agriculture

A man on the right side of the image walks across a dry yellow and brown landscape, with occasional brown and green scrub brush and green trees at the horizon that stand among a cluster of clay brick houses, some square with flat roofs, some cylindrical with conical metal roofs.

Sanitation, soil and food security: insights from 20 years of productive sanitation in Burkina Faso

Perspective / Inherently connected, the nutrients needed on the fields are the same nutrients that sanitation systems could capture and reuse.

24 March 2026 / About Food and agriculture and Sanitation

A small herd of glossy black cows stand facing the camera. They are standing in a sunny plain, with a background of shrubs, small trees, and rolling hills in the distance.

Embryonic upgrading in agri-food value chains: an analysis of small-scale environmental initiatives in the Mexican beef sector

Journal article / Initiatives to improve the sector's environmental sustainability are gaining momentum, but a "generalizable" upgrade model is yet to emerge.

6 March 2026 / About Supply chains