Opportunities and challenges for the development of the Cerrado bioeconomy: an analysis from the agents of the baru supply chain

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https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v15n2.2024.54142

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Bioeconomy, Sociobiodiversity, Agroextractivism, Supply chain, Baru, Brazilian Cerrado

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Strengthening sociobiodiversity production chains plays a little-understood role in supporting the transition into bioeconomy. This article explores the strengthening of sociobiodiversity chains through the case study of the baru supply chain. Data from semi-structured interviews (n = 114) with various agents involved in the supply chain underwent thematic analysis to understand their perceived opportunities and challenges for strengthening the chain and its contributions to promoting a sociobiodiversity-based bioeconomy in the Cerrado. Results suggest that despite existing opportunities for strengthening the chain, they face numerous challenges to trigger development processes aligned with the sustainable goals of the bioeconomy.

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Andrés Burgos, PhD in Sustainable Development, Researcher, Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil

Andrés Burgos is a full collaborator/post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Sustainable Development (CDS) at the University of Brasilia (UnB), at the One Amazon international project. He holds a PhD. and MSc. in Sustainable Development (CDS-UnB, Brazil), and BSc. in Biology (University of Santiago de Compostela - Spain). Andrés was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Remote Sensing (UFMG, Brazil), a fellow researcher at the Latin American and Caribbean Community of Practice on Ecosystem Approach to Human Health (CoPEH-LAC) and a visiting researcher for the Science without Borders sandwich doctoral program at the NOVA School of Science and Technology (Lisbon) at the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (CENSE). His main research interests include social–ecological networks, food sovereignty and environmental governance.

Frédéric Mertens, PhD in Environmental Sciences, Professor, Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil

Frédéric Mertens is a professor at the Center for Sustainable Development, University of Brasília, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal and has an interdisciplinary academic background in biology, sustainability sciences and network analysis. He teaches in the Graduate Program in Sustainable Development at the University of Brasilia. He was the supervisor of 14 Ph.D. and 17 M.Sc. students and of 5 post-doctoral fellows. His main research interests include social-ecological sustainability, network science, food security and multilevel governance. During the last two decades, he participated in ten international IDRC funded research projects. Since 2006, he is also the coordinator of the Brazilian node of the Community of Practice on Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Burgos, A., & Mertens, F. (2024). Opportunities and challenges for the development of the Cerrado bioeconomy: an analysis from the agents of the baru supply chain. Sustainability in Debate, 15(2), 25–57. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v15n2.2024.54142

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