The seminar focuses on research related to the bioeconomy in Europe and its interaction with agriculture and related sectors. It emphasizes how sectoral policies and strategies for the bioeconomy are aligned, with particular attention to the Common Agricultural Policy.

Developing and transition economies will be increasingly concerned with environmental and natural resources management issues; they will have to solve a three-fold challenge: a better environment, good economic performances and poverty reduction as targeted by the Millennium Development Goals....

Economic growth is more and more questioned internationally. A debate has been developing the last years in France on the concept of "Sustainable De-growth”". The question reaches the researchers: the so-called "decoupling" between ecological degradation and economic growth appears...