Politically dominant strategies in the fields of agriculture and bioeconomy - even those which take Sustainable Development Goals seriously – stick to what might be called a ‘Productivity Paradigm’: increasing productivity is considered to be necessary to alleviate the rising biomass demand and the resulting competition on land use. However, a lot of visions of agriculture and bioeconomy endorsed by politically subdominant groups both in the Global North and the Global South implicitly question a main pillar of the politically dominant positions: the necessity of productivity increase. This, in turn, is often brought forward as an objection against the subdominant visions. The workshop aims to reflect on this controversy. • What are the normative presuppositions of the Productivity Paradigm? • How do decolonized visions of an agriculture and bioeconomy independent of productivity growth look like? • How could decolonized visions capture both discursive and material space? Inputs (selection): • Julien-François Gerber (Erasmus University Rotterdam) • Emmanuel Sulle (University of Western Cape, South Africa) • Wendy Wilson-Fall (Lafayette College) • Theodora Pius (MVIWATA, Tanzania)08th of October 2021, 10:00 am-3:00 pm. The workshop will be held online. Registration: via email at batata@posteo.deMore details: http://batata-bioeconomy.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Beyond-Productivity_Workshop-Synopsis.pdf