Costa Rica is the world's leading exporter of fresh pineapple and a benchmark for bananas, coffee, palm oil, and preserved fruits. Costa Rica also produces corn, beans, rice, cacao and sugarcane. Efforts are underway to strengthen the sector through policies that incentivize productive transformation linked to biodiversity and soil quality.

Nanotechnology in agricultural soil moisture management

Online crop management support platform

Feasibility of vertical farming technologies in LAC

IPTA Paraguay received recognition and INIA Peru assumed the Presidency during the Fifth KoLFACI Assembly

FONTAGRO, the World Bank Group and IICA led a strategic meeting on new public-private models for agri-food R&D

FONTAGRO activated its Knowledge Management and Communication Committee with a meeting on Scientific Branding

FONTAGRO successfully conducted a training course on Research Project Preparation

INIAP - Ecuador and UNALM - Peru are promoting the project on Emission Reduction in Potato-Pasture Systems, with knowledge exchange

Bacillus megaterium: The new biotechnological key to enhancing the flavor and quality of cocoa

What do Chilean schoolchildren know about soil? A bibliometric analysis

Fungi to manage cadmium: The bioprocess that protects cocoa quality

The Multifunctional Landscapes project held the field day "Challenges of sustainable transitions in a commercial livestock-agricultural property"

March 26, Mercedes, Uruguay. See more

The regional genetic improvement network in Latin America and the Caribbean will lead the practical workshop: "Establishing Improved Sweet Potato Populations."

March 31 - April 1, EEA Donoso, INIA - Peru.

This FONTAGRO project will hold the seminar-workshop “Vertical Agriculture in LAC: Innovation and Management of Hydroponic Systems, Lighting and Plant Nutrition”.

April 6-9 at the IDIAP Experimental Station and the Specialized University of the Americas, Panama City.