Living Labs for Nature, People and Planet
This publication relates to the EFI-led initiative which ran from 2020 to September 2023
Publication date: December 2021
Pages: 2
The Circular Bioeconomy Alliance (CBA) is building a global network of Living Labs for Nature, People and Planet to demonstrate how Harmony can be achieved by empowering Nature and People in a concrete territorial context, integrating traditional knowledge, capitalizing on new research and innovation and based on public-private partnerships that place local communities at their centre.
What is a Living Lab?
Each Lab uses a landscape restoration project as the starting point to catalyse the development of circular bioeconomy value chains while restoring biodiversity and local livelihoods. Labs combine landscape and value chain approaches to deliver long-term jobs, economic prosperity as the basis for human wellbeing and the restoration of natural capital.
Labs are co-designed by the CBA partners with local communities and relevant stakeholders, taking into account local culture, knowledge and traditions as well as the new possibilities offered by research, technology and innovation.
Examples of activities considered under the Living Labs are: regenerative agriculture and organic farming, sustainable forestry and agroforestry, aquaculture, tree nurseries, wood and agri-food processing facilities, architecture, artisan and craftmanship workshops, eco-tourism, capacity building, innovation and research centres, and youth and gender balance targeted activities.
