Bioeconomy can help efforts to tackle pressing global concerns, including
hunger, poverty, and climate change. This was according to Food and
Agriculture Organization Deputy Director-General for Climate and Natural
Resources, Maria Helena Semedo, speaking at the Global Bioeconomy Summit in
Berlin, Germany on April 20, 2018.

Bioeconomy refers to an economy that uses biomass instead of fossil
resources to produce food and other goods such as bioplastics and
biopharmaceuticals. Semedo highlighted that bioeconomy is about nature and
the people involved in maintaining and producing biomass-the family farmers,
forest people, and fishers, who are also "holders of important knowledge on
how to manage natural resources in a sustainable way."

"We must foster internationally-coordinated efforts and ensure
multi-stakeholder engagement at local, national and global levels," she
said, noting that this requires measurable targets, means to fulfill them
and cost-effective ways to measure progress.

"Together, let's harness the development for sustainable bioeconomy for all
and leave no one behind," Semedo said, stressing how FAO works with member
states and other partners across the conventional bioeconomy sectors -
agriculture, forestry, and fisheries - but also relevant technologies such
as biotechnology and information technology to serve agricultural sectors.

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