Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy

Food security and energy transition are among the current major global environmental challenges. Although these issues individually are significant in their own right...

Livestock productivity in East Africa, and especially in Tanzania, remains persistently low, while greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensities are among the highest worldwide. This mixed...

The promotion of a bioeconomy is a strategic driver for the transformation of biobased sectors for sustainable economic growth and development. A central feature of the bioeconomy is that scientific research, knowledge and innovation can be...

This report represents the initial effort to structure existing knowledge about agroecology as farming and food system in support of the EC Knowledge Centre on Food and Nutrition Security (https://ec.europa.eu/knowledge4policy/global-food-nutrition-security_en)...

The IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), approved on 24 September 2019 by the 195 IPCC member governments, provides new evidence for the benefits...

The Arctic region undergoes major pressures from climate variability. Its major manifestations are the increase in temperature and decrease in sea ice coverage and volume, with associated variability...

The study compares costs and benefits of Arctic observation systems. Ten case studies show that annually economic benefits exceed by at least 50% investments. The analytical framework...

The report summarises the results of a consultation of stakeholders in the Arctic region on investment priorities for EU support and ways of streamlining EU funding programmes. While conditions across the Arctic...

A dramatic population growth is projected for the least developed countries of the world (United Nations 2013), which will also suffer disproportionally from ongoing and predicted climate disruptions...