This article offers a vision of how Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have adopted the principles of the bioeconomy in the last two decades with different levels of socio-economic impact. The analysis was carried out with 706 publications obtained from the SCOPUS database between 2003-2020. The results allowed us to identify that in LAC, there are capacities for the development of the bioeconomy; however, these potentialities are disparate at the country level. It was identified that the three countries that most promote the development of this issue are Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. The structural analysis of the bioeconomy work showed a high rate of cooperation between LAC institutions with institutions in North America, Asia, and Europe. The relevance of the bioeconomy in LAC is highlighted as an alternative for growth with emissions decoupling, contributing to productive diversification, especially in the agricultural and agro-industrial sectors. The potential of (agro) ...