Territorial Add Value Strategies: Circular Bioeconomy Experiences from Balcarce (Argentina)

Abstract

The growing concern about world population increases, high demand for food and energy, as well as climate change, generates the emergence of value-added initiatives linked to the development of sustainable territories. This article aims to analyze the add value concept, and specifically the territorial add value, based on an experience around the circular bioeconomy in Balcarce, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is an innovative firm oriented to insect breeding from organic waste, obtaining proteins for animal feed and compost. Under the case study methodology, secondary and primary sources were reviewed, and activities developed and coordinated by the firm were analyzed. This firm shows high potential in generating strategies for territorial add value in a sustainable way. Besides, it shows a high development of multiscale and multidimensional networks, articulating between antagonistic models at local level.