Inside the World Bioeconomy

The Bioeconomy offers the world a unique opportunity to address complex inter-connected challenges, while achieving economic growth. It can assist us in making the transition to a more resource efficient society that relies more strongly on renewable biological resources to satisfy consumers' needs, industry demand and tackle climate change. This book brings together a series of interviews on the bioeconomy with the main world players in the field. From Europe to Canada, from USA to Malaysia, the picture that emerges is of a ferment which invests the business world, universities and research centers, ready to face the challenges that this millennium just begun presents us: the increasing world population and its aging, with the resulting increase in global demand for food, climate change, the depletion of fossil resources and the better use of water resources. Interviews, which are accompanied by an introduction based on an analysis of the economic crisis in which we find ourselves swamped since 2008.