ARGENTINA AGRO-INDUSTRY BRINGS TO THE WORLD CONGRESS OF APPLIED BIOECONOMY
The event takes place this week in Italy, and its main theme this year
is "Governance Structures Alternatives for Sustainable Use of
Biotechnology".
Thursday June 6, 2019
Secretary of Food and Bioeconomy, Andrés Murchison, participated, on behalf
of the Government Secretariat of Agribusiness, as the keynote speaker at
the 23rd Congress of Bioeconomics Applied in Ravello, Italy, where he
presented a keynote speech on state policies in bioeconomy in Argentina,
sharing dais with Minister of Economy and Finance of Italy, Giovanni Tria.
In conclusion of the conference, the organizing committee of this activity
Murchison accepted the invitation to hold its next Congress in Argentina,
will be the first time the event takes place in a Latin American country.
Committee members, chaired by Carl Pray of Rutgers University, to base its
favorable decision stressed that Argentina is practically the only country
that has recognized the importance of the bioeconomy creating a position of
official doomed to, in 2017, issue with the rank of Secretary of State.
They also highlighted the genuine impact of policies on biotechnology that
implements Argentina, and the importance of Latin America as an emerging
lighthouse on the matter.
Congress to be held in 2020 in the province of Cordoba, it will be
organized by the Ministry of Food and Bioeconomy in conjunction with the
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), under the
Cooperation Agreement on bioeconomy signed between the Institute and the
Secretariat Agribusiness Government in 2018. it is estimated that 150
international experts will participate plus a similar number of researchers
and policy Argentine and Latin American policies. The activity will feature
a program capitalizing strongly oriented applied research in Bioeconomics
as input for policy development in Argentina and the region.
The Biotechnology Directorate, which promoted this achievement capitalizing
on its international recognition in regulation and policy for biotechnology
also contributed to the Congress this time with a presentation on the
impact of the regulation of gene editing in the innovation economy .
is "Governance Structures Alternatives for Sustainable Use of
Biotechnology".
Thursday June 6, 2019
Secretary of Food and Bioeconomy, Andrés Murchison, participated, on behalf
of the Government Secretariat of Agribusiness, as the keynote speaker at
the 23rd Congress of Bioeconomics Applied in Ravello, Italy, where he
presented a keynote speech on state policies in bioeconomy in Argentina,
sharing dais with Minister of Economy and Finance of Italy, Giovanni Tria.
In conclusion of the conference, the organizing committee of this activity
Murchison accepted the invitation to hold its next Congress in Argentina,
will be the first time the event takes place in a Latin American country.
Committee members, chaired by Carl Pray of Rutgers University, to base its
favorable decision stressed that Argentina is practically the only country
that has recognized the importance of the bioeconomy creating a position of
official doomed to, in 2017, issue with the rank of Secretary of State.
They also highlighted the genuine impact of policies on biotechnology that
implements Argentina, and the importance of Latin America as an emerging
lighthouse on the matter.
Congress to be held in 2020 in the province of Cordoba, it will be
organized by the Ministry of Food and Bioeconomy in conjunction with the
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), under the
Cooperation Agreement on bioeconomy signed between the Institute and the
Secretariat Agribusiness Government in 2018. it is estimated that 150
international experts will participate plus a similar number of researchers
and policy Argentine and Latin American policies. The activity will feature
a program capitalizing strongly oriented applied research in Bioeconomics
as input for policy development in Argentina and the region.
The Biotechnology Directorate, which promoted this achievement capitalizing
on its international recognition in regulation and policy for biotechnology
also contributed to the Congress this time with a presentation on the
impact of the regulation of gene editing in the innovation economy .