‘The Canoe of the Biodiversity Bioeconomy’

Drawing an analogy to the popular saying “How many sticks does it take to make a canoe?”, Ismael Nobre wrote an article published in January about how to ‘do it right, do it well’, the valorization of biodiversity with a bioeconomy allied to the technologies available to us today.

“The canoe of the new bioeconomy of Amazonian biodiversity carries dreams and opportunities. Well-distributed wealth can grow in trees. But also in fungi, snake venom and DNA sequences. It’s all there.” (Ismael Nobre – article in Um Só Planeta – Globo, 2023)

“It’s all there!”. There is traditional knowledge and rich biodiversity in the forest, but it is still the raw material for a colonial economy, as Ismael points out in his article.

The switch to an economy that wastes less and generates profitability, plus the inclusion of traditional peoples as part of the process, is possible with the existing alternatives proposed by 4.0 technologies. In this way, a local economy can be created with products from the conserved forest.

Ismael Nobre also emphasizes that the economic value of the living forest goes beyond what is currently known and the commercialized, especially considering that resources are finite. Therefore, it should be approached with a multi-dimensional potential perspective.

In the words of the Executive Director of the Amazonia 4.0 Institute, the living, healthy forest is the basis for many dimensions of value generation. And for those who want to do it right, the biodiversity bioeconomy canoe is passing through and can encompass several sectors. Check out the full text of the article on the webpage ‘Um Só Planeta’ – Globo.