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Extraordinary Call 2024 · 240205H

Regional Network for Genetic Improvement in LAC to Promote Resilient and Nutritious Agriculture

The world faces significant challenges in terms of food security, not only regarding access to food but also its nutritional quality, and consequently, its impact on human health. A concerning phenomenon is the 'Triple Burden' of malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight/obesity, which has a global incidence, particularly in regions like Latin America and the Caribbean. In this cont...

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Extraordinary Call 2024 · 240225

New Horizons in AgTech: Scaling innovation in pastoral systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

This project aims to maximize the harvest of forage produced on farms, thus contributing to improving the self-sufficiency and the economic and environmental sustainability of pastoral systems. This results in lower costs, greater resilience to climate variability, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation. In both tropical areas like Costa Rica and subtropical and temperate zones l...

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Extraordinary Call 2024 · 240205

Integration of sorghum cultivation into the production systems of the Central American Dry Corridor

The project focuses on the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the Dry Corridor of Central America by incorporating sorghum genotypes and other forage cereals adapted to each environment to increase the productivity, sustainability, and resilience of the region's production systems. The proposal promotes a regional alliance to achieve intensive and sustainable agriculture. The p...

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Seed fund 2022 · ATN/RF-19885-RG

Seed Fund

Since 2015, FONTAGRO has been promoting the mobilization of resources for the development of new scientific knowledge, the advancement of technologies, and innovations to support the transformation of agri-food systems in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. The FONTAGRO Board of Directors considered it necessary to create a technical cooperation for the allocation of funding aimed at facilita...

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Extraordinary Call 2022 · RG-T4389-ATN/RF-20627-RG

Sustainable livestock farming in the Amazon of Peru and Ecuador

Livestock farming is an essential activity for the livelihoods of farmer families in Peru and Ecuador, generating economic, social and nutritional benefits. In the Amazon region of these countries, both livestock and agriculture have been expanding, resulting in benefits but also environmental problems, especially when extensive systems have been implemented at the expense of deforestation and the...

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Call for Proposals 2022 · ID1732MonitoreoMetano

Satellite tool to strengthen capacities for monitoring, reporting and verification of methane emissions in Latin American ecosystems.

Given the importance of quantifying methane (CH4) emissions from rice paddies in national inventories and the increasing investment in mitigation technologies, there is significant value in developing verification technologies that can be applied at regional or national scales. It is currently possible to monitor CH4 content using satellite sensors. An example of such a sensor is the Sentinel-5 P...

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Joint proyects 2022 · ATN/RF-20632-RG

Feasibility of vertical farming technologies in LAC

The rapid growth of the global population, which could reach 10 billion by 2050, has increased the need to produce food efficiently and effectively. Furthermore, it is estimated that during the next 50 years the effects produced by climate change, added to the main challenges of humanity in conditions of uncertainty (unemployment, pandemics, wars, etc.), will play a fundamental role...

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Call for Proposals 2021 · ATN/RF-20629-RG

Geographical indications for Mesoamerican cacao

The Mesoamerican region has been fundamental in the domestication and diversification of Theobroma cacao, representing a prominent origin of fine flavor cocoa produced from Criollo and Trinitario varieties. However, fine flavor cocoa remains insignificant in the global cocoa market, despite its production being crucial in the economy and culture of multiple indigenous, afro-Caribbean and mestizo c...

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Joint proyects 2021 · ATN/RF-19787-RG

Satellite monitoring of quantity and quality of available biomass in pastoral livestock systems

Pastoral livestock production contributes 46% of GDP and is key to LAC's food and social security. Currently, pastoral bovine production systems face the challenge of increasing their profitability by reducing their environmental impact, since high costs and a growing concern about their contribution to global warming threaten their development. Knowing the quantity and quality of available biomas...

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Joint proyects 2020 · ATN/RF-18769-RG

Organic carbon sequestration in soils of Latin America and the Caribbean: identification of opportunities and quantification of their economic and environmental impact

There are several international efforts to seek solutions to global problems such as climate change, food security and environmental pollution. One of them is the Paris agreement signed in 2015, in which 196 countries join efforts to limit global warming. Different scenarios have been created and the most ambitious is to limit the temperature increase to less than 2 degrees. One objective proposed...

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Initiatives in progress

2023 Call - Call for Proposals

"Science, technology and innovation to make agriculture and food security more sustainable and resilient to climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean"

Status: Closed
2022 Call - Extraordinary Call

“Innovations to improve the sustainability and resilience of farms to the impact of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean”

Status: Closed
2021 Call - Call for Proposals

Innovation for sustainable and resilient agri-food and territorial development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Status: Closed
Call 2020 - Call for Proposals

Innovations for the sustainable increase of agricultural productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of climate change

Status: Closed
Call 2019 AgTech - Call for Proposals

From Science to Impact: Innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture Using Agtechs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Status: Closed
Call 2019 Productivity - Call for Proposals

Increase in Productivity in Family Agriculture with Sustainability, Inclusion and Profitability

Status: Closed
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