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<p>Very little is known about public understanding, awareness, and perception of bioeconomy in Nigeria where its adoption is scant. Addressing this problem, we adopted a mixed method research design study to investigate the level of understanding, perception, and awareness of bioeconomy and its products among 550 Lagos residents’, 500 survey respondents and 50 focus group participants. Results revealed self-assessed moderate understanding and positive perception of bioeconomy, but poor knowledge of bioeconomy products. The recommendation is that bioeconomy development initiatives should target improvement of individuals’ knowledge of bioeconomy, and awareness of bioeconomy products, and reinforce environmental benefits, and climate action attributable to bioeconomy to drive its adoption among the populace.</p>
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Very little is known about public understanding, awareness, and perception of bioeconomy in Nigeria where its adoption is scant. Addressing this problem, we adopted a mixed method research design study to investigate the level of understanding, perception, and awareness of bioeconomy and its products among 550 Lagos residents’, 500 survey respondents and 50 focus group participants. Results revealed self-assessed moderate understanding and positive perception of bioeconomy, but poor knowledge of bioeconomy products. The recommendation is that bioeconomy development initiatives should target improvement of individuals’ knowledge of bioeconomy, and awareness of bioeconomy products, and reinforce environmental benefits, and climate action attributable to bioeconomy to drive its adoption among the populace.

Grappling with Bioeconomy Research and Discourse in Nigeria – Mixed Method to the Rescue

Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development

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Very little is known about public understanding, awareness, and perception of bioeconomy in Nigeria where its adoption is scant. Addressing this problem, we...

Grappling with Bioeconomy Research and Discourse in Nigeria – Mixed Method to the Rescue

Publié en ligne: 22 déc. 2023

Pages: 33 - 37

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjbsd-2023-0007

Mots clés
bioeconomy, bio-based, climate change, sustainability, Nigeria

© 2023 Oluwaseun J. Oguntuase et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Grappling with Bioeconomy Research and Discourse in Nigeria – Mixed Method to the Rescue

Publié en ligne: 22 déc. 2023

Pages: 33 - 37

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjbsd-2023-0007

Mots clésbioeconomy, bio-based, climate change, sustainability, Nigeria

© 2023 Oluwaseun J. Oguntuase et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
bioeconomy, bio-based, climate change, sustainability, Nigeria