Coordinator of the Regenerative Food Businesses (NAR) Project visits CATIE to strengthen collaborations in regenerative agricultura

• Meeting aimed to explore joint work to accelerate the transition of food systems in Latin America towards more resilient and regenerative models in the face of climate change.
  
  

Pablo Vagliente, coordinator of the Regenerative Food Businesses (NAR) project and director of IKATU Ventures, visited CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) to meet with director general, Luis Pocasangre, on October 15.

The purpose of the meeting was to exchange interests and explore new collaborations to accelerate the transition of food systems in Latin America towards more resilient models in the face of climate change, while simultaneously promoting the ecological and social regeneration of territories.

CATIE, through its Agrobiodiversity and Food Security Unit, has played a key role in the development of the Regenerative Food Businesses project and gender-lens investing: regeneration for the reconstruction of the Amazon and the Central American Dry Corridor of Latin America and the Caribbean. This initiative is funded by IDRC Canada, coordinated by Fundación AVINA, and implemented by a consortium of 10 Latin American organizations. 

This consortium, of which CATIE is a part, aims to generate, disseminate, and foster knowledge, interests, and experiences that promote the transition to regenerative food systems and strengthen the growing community of practice in Latin America and the Caribbean.

According to Pocasangre, CATIE is committed to strengthening initiatives that promote these approaches, which positively contribute to a crisis context where production models require innovation and green technologies aligned with the urgent global effort to reverse the transgression of planetary boundaries. Pocasangre emphasized that the institution is working hard to ensure its actions respond effectively to these challenges and is open to collaborations that integrate CATIE’s diverse strengths in this area.

For his part, Vagliente highlighted the numerous collaboration opportunities between CATIE and Fundación AVINA, within the framework of the NAR Consortium, including: the development of studies on the performance of businesses that apply regenerative approaches; the creation of financial mechanisms that incentivize the transition of food systems to these models; the strengthening of public policies that drive this transformation; and other possibilities for future collaborations.

About the NAR

Consortium The NAR Consortium addresses urgent global issues, especially prevalent in the Latin American context.

It is comprised of 10 organizations: Fundación AVINA, CATIE, the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), NESsT, the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN), Sistema B, Social Venture Connexion-Mexico (SVX Mexico), Rafael Landívar University (URL), and World-Transforming Technologies (WTT).

For more information about the NAR Consortium and the project results, visit www.regenerativo.org.