Eyeing the Future of Agriculture : A Vision for Agricultural Innovation in Chile
Chile is one of the leading agricultural producers in Latin America and an important player in world agro-alimentary markets-a position it is determined to maintain. In 2008, the government (through the Ministry of Agriculture) requested technical...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/12/16199122/eyeing-future-agriculture-vision-agricultural-innovation-chile http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10424 |
| Summary: | Chile is one of the leading agricultural
producers in Latin America and an important player in world
agro-alimentary markets-a position it is determined to
maintain. In 2008, the government (through the Ministry of
Agriculture) requested technical assistance from the World
Bank to define how agricultural innovation can help maintain
future competitiveness and how it needs to evolve. However,
since changes in its agricultural innovation system will pay
off more in the long run than in the short term, Chile
needed a realistic assessment of what it will take to be an
agricultural leader in the future, knowing that without an
understanding of the future, any major investment in
agricultural innovation would be like shooting a cannon in
the dark. Although many dynamic changes (such as population
growth, improved incomes, market development, climate
change, shifting dietary patterns, and advances in
technology) can be identified, mapping and tracing their
interaction is highly complex. So the Ministry and the Bank
jointly engaged in a visioning exercise to understand the
factors that drive Chile's agricultural future. This
smart lesson summarizes that exercise and shares some of the
lessons learned. |
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