Abstract (eng)
Globally, the concept of Bioeconomy and its focus on biogenic resources for material and energetic use is seen as the answer to climate change, overpopulation, location promotion and the finiteness of fossil fuels. Furthermore, the concept is regarded as a means of securing intensive capitalist processes, distinguished by sustainability. Critics denounce the ambivalence between sustainability and the consolidation of capitalist processes. However, the discourse lacks a critical developmental analysis of a National Bioeconomy Strategy. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to answer the questions of whether a sustainable transformation of society as a whole is taking place or whether it is a modernization concept of the global North with the aim of securing competition and hegemony by analyzing the Nationale Politikstrategie Bioökonomie.
The method used in the thesis is the SWOT-analysis with the aim of identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks for Germany and countries of the global South through the NPB (2014). The analysis factors of the internal analysis were derived from the political fields of action, the strategic approach and the measures of the NPB. The strategic areas analyzed are divided into three main fields of action and five relevant development policy fields. To carry out the external analysis, possible future scenarios, economic and political conditions were examined. Due to the method used and the determination of the status quo of the NPB, it is possible to identify the political orientation of the strategy, gaps and false assumptions and to create alternative strategy adjustments that are sustainable in terms of development policy.