III Successful Cases of Innovation in Family Agriculture Contest
“Agriculture and Nutrition”

Lessons from family farming and its link to nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean

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December 17, 2020 – 2:00 PM (EST)

AWARD CEREMONY

Since 2012, FONTAGRO has held the Successful Case Competition to document successful, regionally replicable experiences and their takeaways to contribute to a better understanding of innovation processes in agriculture and promote food availability and nutritional quality.

 

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Agenda
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14:00 PM (EST)

Opening and Welcome Message.
Pedro Bustos Valdivia, President of FONTAGRO.

Presentation of winning cases.
Eugenia Saini, Executive Secretary.

Category I. Farmers’ associations and other private sector organizations working with LAC producers.
Case 1: Sowing food diversity and economic opportunities in the Colombian Paramo.
Margarita Cabal, Legal Representative of Páramo Farms SAS, Colombia.

Category II. National public sector and non-governmental organizations of LAC.
Case 2: Biofortification combats hidden hunger in Panama.
Maica Lorena Barría Castro, AgroNutre Project Manager, IDIAP Panama.
Case 3: Diffusion of the BRS Amélia cultivar in Southern Brazil.
José Luiz Viana de Carvalho, BioFORT Network Research Leader, EMBRAPA, Brazil.
Case 4: BioFORT Platform: A nutritious path to the Guatemalan table.
Julio Antonio Franco Rivera, Coordinator of the Cooperation and Liaison Unit, ICTA, Guatemala.

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15:00 PM (EST)

Future prospects
Lloyd Day, Deputy Director General, IICA
Erick Boy, Head of Nutrition Unit, HarvestPlus
Marialia Nuti, Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, HarvestPlus
Closing Remarks
Arnulfo Gutiérrez, Vice President of FONTAGRO.

CATEGORY I.

PPRODUCERS’ ASSOCIATIONS AND OTHER PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS

SOWING NUTRITIONAL AND AGRO-ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ON THE COLOMBIAN PARAMO

Organization

Páramo Farms SAS.
Margarita Cabal
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In only two years, 300 families of the Paramo de Guerrero who consumed very limited diets were able to access a variety of nutrient-rich foods, with 23 types of vegetables, native potatoes and Andean grains, planted by a campesino organization led by women.
CATEGORY II.

NATIONAL PUBLIC SECTOR AND NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

A NUTRITIOUS FOOD BASKET. BIOFORTIFICATION TO COMBAT HIDDEN HUNGER IN PANAMA.

Organization

Instituto de Investigación Agropecuaria de Panamá (IDIAP)
Maika Lorena Barría Castro, AgroNutre project.
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In 2013 AgroNutre began to promote biofortified crops of rice, beans, maize and sweet potato, among poor campesino communities in Panama. Today 12,975 farmers are working to combat the malnutrition of 230,000 people, resulting in inclusion of the strategy in the country’s public policies.
BIOFORT PLATFORM: THE NUTRITIOUS PATH TO THE GUATEMALAN DIET

Organization

ICTA, Guatemala.
Julio Antonio Franco Rivera, coordinator of the Cooperation and Liaison Unit.

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It took the BioFORT Platform four years for 88,000 family farmers to produce beans, maize and sweet potato biofor- tified with iron, zinc and provitamin A, which contributed to combating mal- nutrition among 530,000 people in 15 of Guatemala’s 22 departments.
THE BRS AMÉLIA CASE, A SWEET POTATO AGAINST MALNUTRITION IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL

 

Organization

Embrapa, Brasil.
José Luiz Viana de Carvalho, BioFORT Network.

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In 2011 the BioFORT Network launched BRS Amélia, a high productivity biofortified sweet potato with vitamin A as part of its actions against malnutrition. Today, this crop covers 15% of the cultivated area in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s main producer of the vegetable, benefiting 5,000 family farmers.

FONTAGRO thanks all those who made possible the III Competition of Successful Cases “Agriculture and Nutrition”.

Especially the small producers participating in these initiatives who with their effort, commitment and persistence achieved innovations for the benefit of the community.
The institutions and campesino organizations for developing, documenting and sharing their experiences and lessons learned.
The researchers and technicians for their unconditional work to achieve more nutritious foods that help us reduce malnutrition.
HarvestPlus for co-sponsoring this initiative.
The competition evaluators.
The sponsors, IDB and IICA, for their continued support.
The members of the FONTAGRO Board of Directors for their collaboration with the holding of the competition.