Faced with the reality that in the coming years it will be difficult to maintain the traditional economic model, because soil and water resources are increasingly compromised and there are greater social demands, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA ), launched an innovative scheme.
This is the Bioeconomy Sector Strategy for Mexico, which seeks to take advantage of crop waste to transform and adapt agri-food systems to climate change and, at the same time, strengthen food security.
This proposal is in response to the need to sustainably increase agricultural production by at least 70 percent by 2050, said Adriana Cruz Muñoz, Director General of Added Value and Market, of the Coordination of the Secretariat of Agriculture.
It will allow the transition from linear production systems to integral ones through innovation and technology for the more efficient and responsible management of natural resources. Sustainable development is sought to promote inclusion and close social gaps.
Cruz Muñoz said that biomass and residual biomass reached 278 million tons in 2018, of which 58 percent was from forests and 27 percent from agricultural waste.
He said that they are currently working on the development of an Agricultural Bioeconomy Observatory. It will be the first public good to focus on this knowledge. Participation in Latin American and international networks is maintained to strengthen the proposal.
According to the Minister of Agriculture, Víctor Villalobos, this is a program that adheres to the government’s sectoral scheme, in which the bioeconomy is an opportunity to take advantage of agricultural crop residues.
Also the creation of inclusive biobusinesses that have megadiversity and a strategic geographic position for international trade.
The proposal is to transform the biomass of all chains into innovative, healthy and safe products to achieve the goal of feeding a constantly growing population, said Santiago Arguello Campos, general coordinator of Agriculture.
A waste pattern of 30 to 40 percent is estimated, depending on the production chain and that 70 percent of the food produced in the country passes through one of the 66 Supply Centers that operate in the Republic.
In turn, the IICA representative in Mexico, Diego Montenegro, commented that the ESBAM proposal addresses the need to transform current agri-food systems, as it encourages the development of bio-enterprises, innovation and technology.
And it promotes the efficient use of natural resources and the reuse of agricultural residual biomass as inputs in new industrial processes.
The bioeconomy has the potential to become a strategic investment in sustainable development in Latin America, which has vast biological wealth and a solid base of human, productive and scientific capabilities, which translate into comparative advantages.
2024-06-30 22:42:26
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