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Productive Alliances for Rural Development and Food Security

This site is meant to be a contribution to the promotion of Productive Alliances in agriculture, as an information tool favoring the development of productive/agrofood chains through entailments between different stakeholders representing public, entrepreneurial and small producers sectors of the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Regional Office has developed the concept of Productive Alliances in response to the exhaustion of the traditional model of development based on the use of comparative static advantages. The concept of Productive Alliances corresponds to the capacity to coordinate efforts, resources and abilities of the different sectors of society to jointly approach the complex problems of the productive phase and to take advantage of the interaction and complementariness of the strengths and weaknesses of the different productive agents with the purpose of adding value to their products.

The importance of the establishment of productive alliances lies in the fact that it would improve the insertion of the agricultural producers in the productive chains to face the problems of access to markets, information, financing, infrastructure, technological innovation, as well as the deficient institutional capacity generated by the structural reforms and the globalization of the economic activities.

This page will try to promote initiatives that generate businesses and investment opportunities to improve the levels of small agriculture competitiveness, through the promotion of forums and businesses rounds, as well as encourage the establishment of entrepreneurial management centers between small producers associations and/or agroenterprises, addressing particularly the technical education and development of negotiating capacities of the own productive agents.

For further information contact the Productive Alliances Group
Florence Tartanac
Agroindustry and Food Technology Officer
Guilherme Schuetz
Marketing and Rural Finance Officer