Food Security and Healthy Nutrition in the Context of the Bioeconomy

Abstract

“Food first has become a globally recognized rule in bioeconomic research and application. This has not always been the case, and the assessment of the way in which this rule should be implemented is not clear. One milestone in the global discussion has certainly been the Communiqué of the Global Bioeconomy Summit in 2015, which recognized the important role of the bioeconomy in sustainable development (GBS 2015). The Communiqué derives the importance of the bioeconomy essentially from the fact that it is an instrument for achieving the sustainability goals of the United Nations (United Nations 2015). The key driver behind all of its challenges is the massive increase in the world’s population in the past decades, and the forecast that 10 to 12 billion people will populate our planet in 2050 (► Chap. 1). First and foremost, this requires the provision of sufficient and safe food for the future.