Otero exchanged ideas and information with European Commission agricultural, trade, environmental and legal officials in various meetings in the Belgian capital, aimed at furthering collaboration and establishing new linkages in areas such as the bioeconomy; climate change mitigation and adaptation; digital agriculture; family farming and international trade, among others.

El ministro de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca de Uruguay, Fernando Mattos, advirtió que los países desarrollados, como máximos responsables históricos del cambio climático, deben compensar a los países en desarrollo que sufren el impacto de los fenómenos climáticos extremos.

Prestigious German scientist, Joachim von Braun, has been named a Goodwill Ambassador for the Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), in recognition of his global efforts to create more sustainable and inclusive agrifood systems and to build bridges between Latin America and the rest of the world.

In recent years, Argentina and other countries throughout the region have had multiple successful experiences with the bioeconomy, paving the way towards a new production model that reduces the use of fossil fuels and generates multipurpose bioproducts.

More than 120 specialists from the public and private sectors participated in an event organized by ALADI and IICA, in which measures were discussed to increase efficiency and competitiveness in the trade of products and services in Latin America and the Caribbean.