Bioeconomy in Latin America and the Caribbean: a generation seeking to transform science into rural profitability

There is a new generation of rural entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean that no longer talks only about producing more food. They naturally think in terms of biomass, traceability, bioinputs, carbon capture, biodiversity, and circular economy. For them, transforming agricultural waste into energy, tracking a product’s journey from the field to the consumer, or developing microorganisms that improve crops is no longer a futuristic or academic concept: it is beginning to form part of a new way of thinking about businesses linked to agriculture and rural territories.

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