The bioeconomy approach and sustainable development / Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Takanori Nagano -- Sustainable biomass production from oceans and potential for circular bioeconomy / Trond Rafoss, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu -- Land and ocean connection through iron transport by rivers - a case of the Amur-Okhotsk ecosystem (Giant Fish-Breeding Forest) / Takeo Onishi, Takayuki Shiraiwa -- Evaluating local sustainability including ecosystem services provided by rural areas to cities to promote bioeconomy / Tohru Nakashizuka, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Rei Shibata, Masahiro Aiba, Takahiro Sasai, Michio Oguro, Hiroko Kurokawa, Shunsuke Managi -- Transition towards bio-based economy in small-scale agriculture in sub Saharan Africa through sustainable intensification / Mehreteab Tesfai, Giacomo Branca, Luca Cacchiarelli, Chiara Perelli, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu -- Save and Grow: Sustainable Intensification of Crop Production and Innovative Market Linkages for Building Resilient Rural Economies in the Greater Mekong Subregion / Jan Willem Ketelaar, Alma Linda M Abubakar, Avakat Phasouysaingam, Vornthalom Chanthavong, Ngo Tien Dung, Mayling Flores Rojas, Abha Mishra and Peter Sprang -- Protected Cultivation of Vegetables in Sub-Saharan Africa - Scope and impacts / Hugo Despretz, Thibault Nordey, Armel Clement Goudjo Mensah -- Mediterranean Anthroscapes: A Bioeconomy Domain for a Sustainable Land Use / Erhan Akca, Suha Berberoglu, Takanori Nagano, Selim Kapur -- Centrum Wood Vision: creating new value chains for sustainable woods management in Japan / Takanori Nagano, Yuka Bando, Yutaka Okano, Daisuke Maki, Takahiro Ueyama -- Promoting sustainable biogas technology development through integrated food and energy systems / Roar Linjordet, Divina Gracia P. Rodriguez, Mehreteab Tesfai, Anne Strøm Prestvik, Salome Modiselle, Primrose Magama, and Mokhele Moeletsi -- The need for stakeholder engagement and participative governance to promote bioeconomy / Divina Gracia P. Rodriguez, Anne Strøm Prestvik -- Summary and way forward towards a sustainable bioeconomy / Udaya Sekhar Nagothu