{"id":6082,"date":"2020-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2022-03-08T12:30:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T12:30:55","slug":"agrobiotecnologia-agricultura-e-idi-claves-frente-a-la-crisis-sanitaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/noticias\/agrobiotecnologia-agricultura-e-idi-claves-frente-a-la-crisis-sanitaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Agrobiotechnology: agriculture and R&amp;D&amp;i, keys to the health crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The agri-food sector has revealed its economic and social relevance by guaranteeing the supply of quality food<\/li><li>R&amp;D is an essential tool, providing knowledge and technology to respond to global health and food challenges.<\/li><li>Both sectors converge in plant biotechnology, the strategic area of activity of BIOVEGEN associates.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The health emergency caused by Covid-19 has paralyzed economic activity and Spanish society. The pandemic has completely altered the normal functioning of the country. This panorama has revealed the <strong>great importance of agriculture and R&amp;D&amp;I<\/strong> as essential tools for society to overcome the challenges derived from the health crisis, such as the increase in demand for products while guaranteeing their supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He <strong>agri-food sector is strategic<\/strong> and of great social, territorial, economic and environmental importance. The agri-food value chain, which includes production, transformation and marketing, generates more than 9% of the Gross Domestic Product and contributes to the generation of more than 12% of total employment in the Spanish economy. Furthermore, Spain is the fourth largest exporter of agri-food products in the European Union, contributing 9.4% of total exports. These exports represent a sales figure of 49,502 million euros (16.9% of the total exports of the Spanish economy) while imports of agri-food products reach 37,384 million euros (11.4% of the total goods imported nationwide). national). Thus, the sector shows a trade surplus of 12,118 million euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Agriculture <strong>face new challenges<\/strong> which are determined by the demographic increase that will increase the demand for raw materials, by consumption preferences, by environmental and legal aspects and by aspects related to the globalization of the economy. Overcoming these challenges requires an increase in the efficiency (higher productivity with fewer inputs), quality (nutritional, organoleptic) and sustainability (less environmental impact, waste reuse, etc.) of agriculture that can only be achieved through the application of new developments. technological.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The knowledge generated in applied Plant Biology offers a set of <strong>strategic technologies <\/strong>(bioinformatics, genomic editing techniques, agrobiologicals for plant nutrition and protection, revaluation of waste and circular economy, new plant sources for obtaining protein...) that will allow us to address the global challenges (productivity, sustainability, quality) faced by the food industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the <strong>agriculture<\/strong>, as an essential sector that has not stopped its activity and that has guaranteed the supply of all types of agri-food products, and the <strong>R&amp;D&amp;i<\/strong>, which offers high added value solutions based on knowledge and technology, generating qualified jobs that are not so subject to presence, have revealed their <strong>economic and social relevance<\/strong>, proving essential to face current and future challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At BIOVEGEN, as an association of companies and R&amp;D centers in plant production, we are committed to technology and <strong>We will continue to promote R&amp;D and public-private cooperation <\/strong>as a tool for competitive development of the agri-food sector, and as a well-being tool for Spanish society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>About BIOVEGEN - Spanish Technological Platform for Plant Biotechnology<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>BIOVEGEN-Plant Biotechnology Technology Platform is a public-private partnership currently made up of 107 partners (companies and research\/technological centers) and the Ministry of Science and Innovation, which supports and co-finances the initiative. Our mission is to promote R&amp;D activities between the scientific and business fields in the technology sector. <strong>plant biology\/production<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Are <strong>R&amp;D management service providers<\/strong> and we provide added value and business development opportunities to our partners: direct and indirect financing, search for partners and clients, international projection, advice, relationship with the Administration, with the scientific community and the rest of the business sector with innovation activities, participation in own and third-party events with special conditions, visibility, access to exclusive information (news bulletins, R&amp;D proposals, qualified human resources...).<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El sector agroalimentario ha puesto de manifiesto su relevancia econ\u00f3mica y social garantizando el suministro de alimentos de calidad La I+D es una herramienta esencial, proporcionando conocimiento y tecnolog\u00eda para responder a los retos globales sanitarios y alimentarios Ambos sectores convergen en la biotecnolog\u00eda vegetal, \u00e1mbito de actividad estrat\u00e9gica de los asociados de BIOVEGEN La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,40,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-aportaciones-biovegen","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biovegen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}