The Politics for a Fairer Bioeconomy

摘要: Bioeconomies are yet to meet their sustainable development potentials. Thus far, mostly unsustainable production has prevailed, due reasons on four different levels. First, domestic regulatory and economic incentives have favored conventional, input-intensive monocultures big agribusiness-controlled systems. Second, some norms been crucial in underlying those policies: (i) the but not political inclusion of smallholders low-income countries; (ii) pre-eminence climate wild biodiversity conservation over other sustainability issues, assuming “renewable” mean “sustainable” disregarding performance bio-based social environmental criteria; (iii) an implicit urban bias that limits rural strategies prioritizes provision resources cities. Third, state private agroindustry agents who espouse formed winning coalitions concretize policy beliefs held common. Ultimately, there feedback loops between agency, governance architectures, allocation access patterns. Therefore, prevailing patterns’ very distributive outcomes can be identified as a cause dominance. As such, equity reveals just normative goal also key determinant governance. To aggravate inequalities more sustainable, bioeconomy promotion needs policies reconfigure patterns promote structural change.