Bioeconomy offers path to mitigating climate change, enhancing food production

FILE - Farmers harvest maize crop facilitated by the Safaricom DigiFarm App that helps agribusinesses and small holding farmers to share information and transact easily, in Sigor village of Bomet County, Kenya, May 28, 2020. FILE - Famine Early Warning System Network in Africa (FEWS NET) scientist Chris Shitote talks to farmer Bernard Mbithi after he uprooted his maize field that failed because of a drought in Kilifi county, Kenya, Feb. 16, 2022. FILE - Kenya forest rangers patrol inside the canopy of Ngong Road Forest,on Feb. 1, 2022 in Nairobi. FILE - Sasini employees work in a tea field at Kipkebe Tea Estate near Musereita, Kenya on Oct. 21, 2022. FILE - Farmers process climate-smart beans in Machakos, Kenya, March 18, 2024.

Bioeconomy is the production, use, and conservation of biological resources to produce goods that sustain communities. A new report says the promotion of bioeconomy as a way to deal with climate change holds promise for rural areas in Africa and elsewhere.