Agricultural bioinputs: status and prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean

At the national level, the document highlights the importance of: reduce regulatory heterogeneity; articulate the public policy instruments that leverage its promotion; guide R&D&I in bioinputs in a way that recognizes the enabling and conditioning characteristics of each territory; promote the development of scaling and commercial production infrastructure to meet demand; resolve environmental and human health regulatory issues; foster alliances between national agricultural research institutes, academia and the private sector; systematize lessons learned from past bioinput production initiatives; develop specific strategies to promote the development of bioinputs that promote research, development, innovation, production and marketing in an integrated and cross-cutting manner; link bioinput strategies with agricultural, environmental, productive development, sustainable development and science and technology goals; and incorporate the promotion of the development and use of bioinputs as a key integral part of bioeconomy strategies, of the environmental goals committed to in the Paris Agreement, and of a set of nature-based solutions. t the regional level, emphasis is placed on the importance of deepening and continuing the coordinated work on the regulation of bioinputs, as is already being done within MERCOSUR, and it is proposed to implement a regional network for research, development and innovation in bioinputs that collects and shares positive experiences and lessons learned from the different national initiatives.