Currently, around 600 production and service cooperatives and organizations are registered in the Sucumbios province of the NEA [19]. Nonetheless, despite significant growth of the associative and cooperative sectors, the socioeconomic conditions of local communities have not changed substantially, and the conservation of the Amazon forest remains a problem of major concern [20]. Recently, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has promoted the bioeconomy and the circular economy as ways to mitigate poverty in the rural sector of middle-income countries. The FAO defines the bioeconomy as the production, use, and conservation of biological resources, including knowledge, science, technology, and innovation related to them, to provide information, products, processes, and services in all economic sectors, with the purpose of moving toward a sustainable economy [21]. The FAO argues that the bioeconomy and the circular economy can promote the growth of farmers' cooperatives while improving their economic, environmental, and social performance. Thus, the sustainable growth of farmers' cooperatives through the implementation of the bioeconomy or circular economy can contribute to the conservation of tropical forests in the NEA. For rural agro-industry, bio- and circular economies converge on the importance of using agricultural waste as the feedstock for new productive processes [22]. In the NEA, agricultural waste is not valued by smallholders or their organizations, due to the lack of knowledge and logistical constraints, instead becoming a source of contamination. Therefore, the agricultural waste generated during the post-harvesting processes in farmers' cooperatives of the NEA have not been considered a resource for the local bioeconomy, much less as a resource with potential to improve the socioeconomic conditions of local communities within a strategy of tropical forest conservation. Of the many technologies that are available for creating value from agricultural waste, pyrolysis stands out because it can be tailored for the conversion of waste into diverse carbon-related products. In general, pyrolysis is the thermochemical decomposition of biomass under oxygen-limiting conditions with the objective of producing solid carbonaceous materials, bio-oils, or synthetic gases. Recently, applications of the solid carbonaceous material that results from pyrolysis, often referred to as biochar, have attained extensive attention [23]. Biochar has important uses in agriculture, construction, climate change mitigation, environmental remediation, filtration of pharmaceuticals and other contaminants from water, energy production, cosmetics, and animal feed [24]. To the best of our knowledge, the conversion of agricultural waste into biochar has not yet been studied in the NEA in the context of implementing the bioeconomy and the circular economy in farmers' cooperatives. It is also still unknown the full extent that pyrolysis and biochar production may optimally play within farmers' cooperatives to promote economically and environmentally sustainable production systems in the NEA. Furthermore, it is uncertain to what degree the conversion of agricultural waste into biochar can help to meet the aspirations of rural development with low greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the pressures on the Amazon forests (i.e., deforestation). The study of pyrolysis processes of different waste materials focuses on the influence of the of feedstock physicochemical properties, type of reactor, and operating conditions (i.e., temperature, pressure, and residence time) on the yield and physicochemical properties of the pyrolysis products [24; 25]. Complementary studies focus on the properties and the potential applications of the pyrolysis products, such as the biochar [26; 27]. Nonetheless, the practical implementation of pyrolysis technology in the context of the rural sector of middle-income countries, such as Ecuador and other Amazonian countries, has not been properly addressed.