Seaweeds are a valuable, underused resource. It is my belief that as the world’s economy gradually transitions away from petroleum towards biomass as a base for many of its products in the coming century, seaweeds will have a larger role to play than they currently do.
To achieve that future, a lot of barriers need to be overcome in every aspect of the value chain: fundamental science, regulations, investment, farming and harvesting, distribution, processing, applications, certifications and conservation.
The goal of Phyconomy is to surface new knowledge, especially pertaining to seaweed markets, and improve the flow of information between
- the different parts of the value chain
- academia, business, investors and government
- different parts of the world
Since 2020, I have been writing, reading, traveling and connecting people in the hope of achieving this goal. I have also taken on consulting assignments for multinationals, NGOs, startups and development banks, which funds the free information that I put out.
Phyconomy has been referenced in
- newspapers like Financial Times (UK), Washington Post (US), Semafor (US), Time (US), The Ken (IN), Yourstory (IN), The Fish Site (UK)
- academic papers by the likes of Carlos Duarte and Dorte Krause-Jensen in Nature Sustainability
- policy papers like that of Seaweed for Europe, the World Bank’s report on new seaweed markets, and various EU Blue Bioeconomy policy papers (eg. here and here).
- Investment research like Standard Chartered’s seaweed investment analysis.
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