Integrating and scaling up renewable resource data: Transition pathways to a bioeconomy in low-income countries

RQ1: How can natural and social science data on renewable resources be integrated and scaled up?

RQ2: What feasible and realistic transition pathways can be identified given political realities?

RQ3: How can these answers be used inductively to characterise and formulate a bioeconomic approach relevant to renewable resources in low-income countries?

WP1: Data integration and up-scaling

WP2: The political ecology of transition

WP3: Theorising the bioeconomy of renewable resources in low-income countries

• Dipesh Pyakurel (ANSAB)
• Arjun Chapagain (FECOFUN)

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