Towards a Latin America and Caribbean Knowledge Based Bio-Economy in partnership with Europe

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Towards a Latin America and Caribbean Knowledge Based Bio-Economy in partnership with Europe

General context of the Bioeconomyand the ALCUE-KBBE project

Guy Henry, coordinatorcirad@ciat

ALCUE-kbbe Stakeholder Consultation - 5 Nov 2012


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Grand Challenges and the Bioeconomy

Climate challenge Energy challenge

Natural resources challengeDemand challenge

Biological Systems and Bioproduction

From «traditional» to «new»…..

Source: BECOTEPS, 2011

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Bioeconomía definida como….

• La Bioeconomía basada en los conocimientos (KBBE) definida como la aplicación de los nuevos conocimientos en las ciencias de la vida para la producción sostenible y competitiva de nuevos productos y servicios (EC 2005)

• El agregado de operaciones economicas en una sociedad que hace un uso creciente del potencial de valor latente en los productos y procesos biologicos para generar crecimiento y bienestar para los ciudadanos y las naciones (OECD, 2006)

• la aplicación de la biotecnología (conocimientos) a la producción primaria, la salud y la industria representa una proporción importante de la economía, y esta guiada por principios de sostenibilidad ambiental (OECD 2009)


Bioeconomy definition by the CE, 2012

“…. the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy….”

The issue … ..... The new bioeconomy is increasingly seen as a

workable alternative to move today’s economies in the direction of more sustainable natural resource use and economic growth. In its essence it’s the coming together of biology, chemistry, materials sciences, genomics and information technology to better exploit natural resources both in agriculture and industry.

The questions and challenge is whether the new concepts are of relevance for the small scale and what are the needed policies to promote and guide investments and the new institutions to ensure the safety of the new technologies and the equitable distribution of the benefits of the ensuing economic growth....

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History of bio-based products…

In contrast to current public perception, converting biomass into energy or fuels has a very long history. As early as 1860, the German Nikolaus August Otto invented the Otto engine using ethanol as automotive fuel. Similarly, during the early decades of the 20th century, Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, built to run on peanut oil, while Henry Ford designed his Model T car to run on hemp-derived ethanol (Source: WEForum, 2010).


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Los sectores de la Bioeconomía

AlimentosHum+Anim

Bio-combustibles Bio-materiales y

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Bioeconomy in Europe today

• 1 Trillion € turnover• 21,5 Mio employees • Largest producing sector• Low Tech and High Tech – employment • Rural development


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Food waste….Example of the EU (and NL)• Food Waste per year in NL: 4.4 Billion Euro• EU Food Production per year: 654 Million MT• EU Food Waste per year: 205 million MT– 1/3 by consumer, – 2/3 by rest of the chain:

• 36% producer• 11% storage + transport• 13% processing/industry• 7% wholesale + retail

(Source: WW, Nr 1 2012)

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Rector Magnificus WUR, Prof. Martin Kropff in opening the Global Science Conference on Climate Smart Agriculture 2011: “Setting the stage….”



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• In the EU, the KBBE concept conceived after 2002 and formally implemented as per 2005 ...

• 17-19 December 2007, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil “Expert Group Meeting on Industrial Uses of Plants for the Use of Bio-Materials”, co-organized by UNIDO.

• 23-24 June 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Forum and Bi-regional expert meeting on “Towards a Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy in Latin America”. This event was organized and co-financed by the EC FP6 SSA ALCUEFOOD project.

• 30 Nov-2 Dec 2009, Concepción, Chile. “La Bioeconomia basada en el conocimiento como jalonador de desarollo economico y sostenibilidad industrial”, co-organized with UNIDO.

• The current project ALCUE-KBBE “LAC Bioeconomy” was formally initiated on 1 June 2011 (till end 2013).

Perspective

“Towards a Latin-American & Caribbean bioeconomy in cooperation with Europe”

Réunion CIRAD - 11 Sept '12

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The objective …

..... To establish a LAC-UE platform bringing together regional and continental organizations involved in research funding and implementation, as well as other relevant stakeholders from the public and private sector and the civil society, in an effort to generate relevant information (for a set of dialogues) for the design and implementation of specific plans and projects, included the needed R&D and set the basis for the establishments of an enabling policy and institutional environment, as well as, for the development and consolidation of the bioeconomy model in the LAC region…



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The structure…


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Phase I - Generating key information…


Position papers, Concept Notes, Policy Briefs:

• State of the art of the Bioeconomy in LAC ….• Natural Resources for BE in LAC ….• LAC policies and institutions…• Scientific and Technological capacities….• Socio-economic, trade and environmental

potential of the BE in LAC….

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Phase II – Stakeholder consultations ….

One of the key activities is connecting + interacting with key Bioeconomy-relevant stakeholders from both LAC and EU regions, since THEY need to analyze, discuss and shape the appropriate BE models for the region and for individual countries (using the information, platform and tools provided by our project platform). Hence:

– May 2012, Bi-regional E-Consultation organized by IICA– June 2012 Workshop (Brasilia): construction of BE scenarios,– Nov 2012 Workshop (Colombia): construction of BE roadmap and

RTD agenda,– March 2013 Workshop (Argentina): construction of roadmap and

policy agenda,– June 2013 (Belgium): science-industry workshop on common priority

RTD themesALCUE-kbbe Stakeholder Consultation -

5 Nov 2012


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Stakeholders include…• Federación de Productores de Palma (FEDEPALMA), Colombia• INBIO, Costa Rica• Fondo Regional para la Tecnología Agropecuaria - FONTAGRO• Consumers International – LAC regional office, Chile • Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Empresas Biotecnologicas • Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, C-R • Asociación Maiz y Sorgo Argentino (MAIZAR), Argentina • CREA, Argentina• Corporación BioTEC, Colombia • União de Indústria de Cana de Açúcar (ÚNICA), Brasil • Perú BIOTEC, Perú• Ministerios de Ciencia y Tecnologia …• Universidades (LAC + UE + …)• Entidades regionales/internacionales: CEPAL, FAO-rlc, CATIE, …• OECD, BID, …• ONGs: WWF, RTRS, Solidaridad, ….• …..

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Future outputs …• The introduction of the bioeconomy model and principles

in Latin R&D and policy agendas….• White papers on the Bioeconomy in LAC region…• BE in LAC region – updated knowledge base…• LAC-EU consortia and public-private interest sharing….• See this project as a «catalyzer» project, thru which other

important benefits are generated through the «offspring» i.e. future co-funded EC R&D projects,

• Integration and initial cooperation with key ETP’s in EU,• Create investment opportunities and the organization of

PPP (at national level),• Create synergies with other BE related activities in the

region (ALCUE-Net, …. ) to co-organize concrete actions in support of the LAC BE.



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Towards a Latin America and Caribbean Knowledge Based Bio-Economy in partnership with Europe

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history of bio

new bioeconomy

los nuevos conocimientos

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