BIOVEGEN met on the 21st with the management team of FONTAGRO in a meeting that included other Technological Platforms and took place in the San Francisco Room of the National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA). The meeting aimed to promote collaborations in forestry and agri-food between Spain and Latin America.
FONTAGRO (Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology) is a regional cooperation program made up of 15 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean and Spain. It is considered a unique cooperation mechanism as it has its own capital, represented legally by the Inter-American Development Bank.
Since 1998, they have supported science, research, and innovation, financing projects aimed at improving the welfare of the rural population by promoting and adopting new knowledge and technologies for the agri-food sector of LAC.