Biological inputs and agricultural policies in South America: between disruptive innovation and continuity

Frédéric Goulet ()
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Frédéric Goulet: UMR Innovation - Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, Cirad-ES - Département Environnements et Sociétés - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

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Abstract: In South America, public policies take a strong interest in alternative technologies to agricultural chemical inputs (pesticides and fertilisers). Some South American countries support biological inputs, also known as bioinputs, through national incentive programmes and regulatory changes. Argentina, Brazil and Colombia are playing a leading role. However, the intention behind this promotion of bioinputs is not to break with industrial agricultural production models, from which States derive a large part of their tax income through exports. Rather, the goal is to foster coexistence between chemical and biological inputs in the context of a transition towards the bioeconomy. In this sense, the promotion of bioinputs meets the expectations of many South American farmers, as well as those of the agricultural inputs industry, which over the last few decades has diversified into these technologies. But these industrial dynamics are counter to certain farmers' movements that defend on-farm production of biological inputs.

Keywords: Biological input; biocontrol; biofertiliser; alternative technology; innovation; transition; technology coexistence; public policy; industry; on-farm production; conventional agriculture; organic agriculture; agroecology; health; South America; Argentina; Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; Mexico; Europe; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Perspective, 2021, 55, pp.1-4. ⟨10.19182/perspective/36383⟩

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DOI: 10.19182/perspective/36383

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