In this guest blog, Dr. Víctor Villalobos, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture discusses how Latin America can meet its potential to become a global food basket – feeding its own population and the rest of the world.

As our global population increases, so must our agricultural production: fast, significantly and sustainably. This increase needs to be achieved, primarily by increases in productivity, rather than an increase in cultivated areas, and it all needs to be done under increased pressure for natural resources and greater climate variability.  These challenges represent unique opportunities for human imagination, and offer Latin America a unique opportunity to step up as a “Global Food Basket”. Continue reading →