Bioeconomy as Climate Action: How Ready Are African Countries?

Oguntuase, Oluwaseun James; Adu, O. B.

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“…Lack of reliable quantitative data on waste management, informal sector, industry waste management data, illegally dumped and recycled waste 21 Nahman and Godfrey, 2010;Couth and Trois, 2012a;Feldt et al, 2014;Kinobe, 2015;Kinobe et al, 2015;Komakech et al, 2015;Mohee and Simelane, 2015;Scarlat et al, 2015;Gnassou, 2017;Godfrey et al, 2017;Regassa et al, 2017;Charis et al, 2019;Critoru et al, 2019;Kabera et al, 2019;Orhorhoro and Oghoghorie, 2019;Dibba, 2020;Adeleke et al, 2021;Ezeudu et al, 2020;Schoeman et al, 2021;Muheirwe et al, 2022;Obsa et al, 2022 Monitoring and evaluation of interventions/projects/initiatives to understand (project) interventions and their impact on improving (future) interventions and planning 6 Oduro- Appiah et al, 2013;Kinobe, 2015;Oyekale, 2017;Kakeu and Christelle, 2018;Mbiadjeu-Lawou, 2019;Moumbe et al, 2020 Lack of data for policy development/investments of CE and its related CE topics such as WEEE data, green and bio-economy 4 Klein and Reiher, 2016;Albagoury, 2020;Godfrey et al, 2021;Oguntuase and Adu, 2021 Monitoring and evaluation for (e) waste management and recycling policies 2 Sebola et al, 2018;Lebbie et al, 2021 to widen the scope of CE research in Africa, which is vital in advancing to a CE model. Building on the previous point, the literature review findings suggest a drastic need to conduct CE research on the themes such as private-sector-driven research, policy and governance, monitoring and evaluation, E-waste, and food and agriculture (Figure…”

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Toward a preliminary research agenda for the circular economy adoption in Africa

Nijman-Ross,

Umutesi,

Turay

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain.

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Circular economy (CE) research plays an important role in accelerating the CE transition globally and is an essential tool to contribute to climate change adaptation. However, prior CE research is primarily focused on countries in the Global North, whereas CE research in the Global South has been largely unexplored, especially in African countries and contexts. Therefore, this study aims to develop a preliminary research agenda for CE development in African countries by identifying the current body of knowledge on CE, the existing CE research gaps and barriers to conducting CE research in African countries. This research applied a mixed method research design, whereby this study reviewed a total of 275 English and French articles from Google Scholar through a scoping literature review and carried out a quantitative and qualitative survey with 38 CE industry experts working on CE projects in African countries. The findings suggest that South Africa is the front-runner in CE research, with the most relevant publications and ongoing research projects conducted by CE experts. The dominant focus on CE research in South Africa is an urgent call for scholars to conduct country-specific research for additional African countries, especially since a significant number of publications do not distinguish between countries. Based on findings, this study concludes that the current body of CE knowledge is primarily focused on one aspect of CE, circulating materials and products (keep products and materials in use), while there is consensus from published journal papers that there are meaningful gaps in other CE principles such as designing out waste and pollution and regenerating natural systems. Therefore, this paper suggests a list of research topics that can be further investigated. To the authors' knowledge, this study is the first attempt to establish a preliminary research agenda for CE across African contexts and countries.

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Toward a preliminary research agenda for the circular economy adoption in Africa

Nijman-Ross,

Umutesi,

Turay

et al. 2023

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“…Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania round out the top ten. Algeria, Mauritania, Egypt, and Chad are the poorest performers in this category (Oguntuase & Adu, 2021), Egypt is still lagging, despite abundant biomass resources (see Figure 1 below). .…”

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Circular bioeconomy in Egypt: the current state, challenges, and future directions

Piccinetti¹,

Rezk²,

Kapiel³

et al. 2023

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The concept of circular bioeconomy or bio-based circular economy is an integrated concept of circular economy and bioeconomy. In other words, it alludes to a systematic approach to economic growth that makes use of cascading biomass production from biological resources. In order to fulfil the objectives of sustainable development and the circular bioeconomy in Egypt, it is recommended that the bioeconomy be focused on as an economy of societal value in this article. It also discusses future directions and actions that can be used in this regard. This paper presents the current situation of the development of circular bioeconomy in Egypt and discuss future directions and measures that can be exploited and recommends focusing on the bioeconomy as an economy of societal value, enabling the achievement of the goals of sustainable development and the circular bioeconomy. Although there is no specific strategy for the bioeconomy, there are numerous government initiatives aiming to benefit from it in the future.

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“…Public acceptance is a major dimension of the diffusion and adoption of bioeconomy in society (Bröring et al, 2020;Nagy et al, 2021;Oguntuase and Adu, 2021). Typically, acceptance studies focus on identifying factors that foster or inhibit the adoption of bioeconomy among the population, including the purchase and consumption of bioeconomy products and the desirability of contemporary scientific and technological developments in a bioeconomy (Rudolph, 2018;Hempel et al, 2019;Eversberg and Holz, 2020).…”

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“…The only nation on the continent with a defined bioeconomy strategy is South Africa, which has the highest potential for a bioeconomy. This has policy implications in that developing a national bioeconomy strategy is the first step toward implementing bioeconomy in Africa (Oguntuase and Adu, 2021).…”

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How do individual-level factors influence the adoption of low-carbon technology? Proposing and validating the bioeconomy technology acceptance model in the context of Africa

Oguntuase,

Adu,

Obayori

2023

Front. Sustain.

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The bioeconomy seeks to efficiently transform biomaterials into value-added products to achieve circularity. A circular bioeconomy is a circular carbon economy based on bio-based resources. There is a dearth of information in the literature about how psychological factors affect public acceptance of the bioeconomy, especially in Africa, where the adoption of bioeconomy is scant. Addressing this gap, this study characterized bioeconomy as a low-carbon bio-based technological innovation to combat climate change and developed the Bioeconomy Technology Acceptance Model (BTAM) to explain the effects of individual-level factors on public acceptance of bioeconomy and investigated it in a survey (N = 465) using questionnaires that were carried out in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2022. The respondents were chosen by proportional stratified random sampling, and descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data obtained. The strong influence of perceived usefulness from bioeconomy and intention to accept bioeconomy in BTAM suggests that the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is suitable for predicting public acceptance of bioeconomy. Considering the strong influence of belief about climate change on the perceived usefulness of bioeconomy and intention to accept it in this study, it is imperative to promote climate change education among Africans to accelerate acceptance of bioeconomy on the continent. The identified psychological factors provide a reference for scholars, policymakers, and manufacturers to effectively develop individual-oriented intervention strategies and promotion schemes to enhance acceptance of bioeconomy in Africa in particular and other climes where there is not yet widespread acceptance of circular bioeconomy.

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Bioeconomy as Climate Action: How Ready Are African Countries?

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

Toward a preliminary research agenda for the circular economy adoption in Africa

Toward a preliminary research agenda for the circular economy adoption in Africa

Circular bioeconomy in Egypt: the current state, challenges, and future directions

How do individual-level factors influence the adoption of low-carbon technology? Proposing and validating the bioeconomy technology acceptance model in the context of Africa

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