Meeting Policy Challenges for a Sustainable Bioeconomy

Intro
 Foreword
 Table of contents
 Tables
 Figures
 Boxes
 Acronyms and abbreviations
 Executive summary
 Key messages
 Chapter 1. The bioeconomy concept: Then and now
 Overview
 The global nature of the societal challenges
 Towards a policy framework for the bioeconomy
 Policy at multiple scales
 Chapter 2. Reconciling food and industrial needs for biomass
 Introduction
 Biomass flows
 The twin dilemmas of food and energy security are intimately linked
 Land potential: Tension between food and industrial use of biomass
 Conclusions Chapter 3. Measuring biomass potential and sustainabilityIntroduction
 How much biomass can be grown and how much is needed: Biomass potential
 Types of biomass potential assessment
 Discrepancies in biomass potential estimates
 Calculating biomass potential and estimating the size of a potential bioeconomy
 Policy implications
 Experience with estimating biomass potential in the United States
 A regional example in the United States
 Harmonising sustainable biomass potential
 Japan and biomass policy
 Measuring biomass sustainability No internationally agreed tools or indicators for biomass sustainabilityLCA in assessment of biomass sustainability
 International harmonisation and a level playing field for biomass sustainability
 Policy implications
 Is the market more able to provide a unified approach to biomass sustainability assessment?
 Purported advantages of the TFP approach
 Policy implications
 ILUC: Where food and non-food uses of biomass collide
 What can be done to ease tension between food and non-food uses of biomass?
 Policy implications Does the use of marginal land alleviate the complexities of sustainability?Sustainable biomass and marginal land
 Policy implications
 Technology tools
 Chapter 4. Biotechnology and biomass sustainability
 Introduction
 Genomics and biotechnology in food production
 Beef production
 Milk production
 Chicken as a food source in a bioeconomy
 Fish and food security
 Biotechnology in the capture fish and aquaculture industries
 Capture fishing: Traceability is becoming urgent
 Aquaculture and genomics
 Tilapia
 Salmon genomics
 Vaccines and the end of the antibiotic era
 Molecular aquaculture Hybrid technologies for aquaculture/agricultureGenetic modification in aquaculture
 Feeding the fish that feed humans
 Crop genomics and precision crops
 Heat and drought stress: An increasingly important problem associated with global warming
 Oil palm genomics
 The oil palm genome and oil yield
 Decoupling agriculture from fossil fuels
 Gene editing could usher in a paradigm shift in agricultural biotechnology
 Policy implications
 Chapter 5. What is a biorefinery: Definitions, classification and general models
 Introduction
 The IEA Biorefinery Complexity Index