The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to recent bioeconomy actions at USDA

Here, Greg Jaffe, senior adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture, highlights recent actions at the USDA on behalf of the bioeconomy. Specifically, highlighting the new USDA report on building a resilient bioeconomy supply chain. What’s in the report? An assessment of biomass availability and current uses. Factors affecting biomass supply chain systems: climate change, food security, environmental justice, biomass availability, infrastructure, workforce, policy, geopolitical challenges, trade risk. Recommendations for research, development and demonstration, investments, and policies that could increase biomass availability, build supply chain system resilience, and expand the use of domestic biomass within the bioeconomy.