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134 | Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Report

Table 3-4. continued.

Variable

Global
Orchestration

 Order from
Strength		 Life as it is Adapting Mosaic
TechnoGarden

Advances in
knowledge

Large investments
in R+D are made,
particularly in
the richer LAC
countries

There is a growing
gap in R+D
activities between
the richer and the
poorer countries.
LAC imports R+D
products

 Rich LACcountries
make
large investments
in R+D, which
makes its
development very
uneven across the
region. However,
the region
becomes a leader
in some some
fields of R+D		 Investments in R+D
are mostly directed
to environmental
sustainability
and biodiversity
conservation		 R+D advances at
great strides, but
close to 2030 there
is a growing social
concern for the
environmental impacts
of many engineered
production systems

Traditional/
indigenous
knowledge

There are few
advances,
because this
knowledge is not
valued as such

Almost nil; it is
not highly rated
by governments,
because they are
wary of it

 Slow advances.
There is not much
incorporation
of it to formal
knowledge		 There is a growing
acknowledgement of
the epistemological
value traditional/
indigenous
knowledge and
the consequent
furtherance of its
application		 There is a growing
acknowledgement of
the epistemological
value traditional/
indigenous knowledge
and the consequent
furtherance of its
application
Focus of
research
 Improvement of
the competitivity
of agricultural
products and
the production
of biomass for
making biofuels.
The needs of
indigenous
communities
and subsistence
farmers are not
taken into account		 Food
innocuousness
(biosecurity)
and economic
efficiency of
agricultural
production		 At the beginning, it
is food production
and its economic
efficiency. At the
end (2030) the
focus is on the
most dynamic
food production
chains, particularly
in the larger
countries in LAC		 For all social groups,
the environmental
sustainability
of production
systems, ecolabeling
of foods,
and mitigation
and adaptation to
climate change		 For all social groups,
the environmental
sustainability
of production
systems, ecolabeling
of foods,
and mitigation
and adaptation to
climate change
Incorporation
of formal
knowledge
 Some countries
in LAC strive to
keep their capacity
for integrating
knowledge into
new technologies		 The capacity
to integrate
knowledge is
rather restricted,
and shows a large
variability across
countries because
it depends
on national
circumstances		 The capacity
to integrate
knowledge is
constrained by
meager resources,
and shows a large
variability across
countries because
it depends
on national
circumstances		 It is conditioned to
the putative effects
of the incorporated
knowledge on the
environment and
biodiversity		 Very intense across
the region
Incorporation
of traditional/
indigenous
knowledge
 Just isolated
initiatives in this
regard		 None Fortuitous Growing Growing
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