1 Martín E. Piñeiro

Three main themes The organizational and technological atributes of agriculture in ABPU The global relevance of food production in ABPU The difficulties in the logistical and processing segments of agroindustry from a circular economy perspective

Technology adoption in agriculture GMO crops Fertilizers No till Precision farming Source: INTA - PRECOP 2011 Pesticides Inoculants Silo bag 2010 %

Gas Emisións Ton/ha CO 2 Ton/ha CH 4 Ton/ha N 2 O ARGENTINA 0,520,350,17 BRASIL 3,650,480,23 PARAGUAY 0,100,380,20 URUGUAY 0,321,060,40 FRANCIA7,040,210,93 Cuadro 5. Emisión relativa desagregada (ton/ha de territorio) de gases de efecto invernadero (anhídrido carbónico, metano y óxido nitroso) en los cuatro países del Cono Sur y Francia. Promedio de los años Las emisiones anhídrido carbónico corresponden a todos sectores de la sociedad. Las de metano y óxido nitroso deben atribuirse mayormente a actividades agropecuarias (Fuente: World Bank, 2014).

Kilograms of fertilizer per hectare Fuente: Banco Mundial en base a datos FAO Los productos fertilizantes contemplados abarcan los fertilizantes nitrogenados, el abono potásico y los fertilizantes fosfatados (por ejemplo, la fosforita molida). No se incluyen los nutrientes tradicionales (abono animal y vegetal).

Source: Cargill, may, *Cereals, oil seeds, meals, vegetable oils, feed equivalents of meat

Additional arable land which could be in use in 2050 in selected regions (million ha) Source: Van der Mensbrugghe, D. FAO. IADB and CIAT Seminar, March 2012.

Annual renewable water resources per capita (thousand cubic meters per year) Source: World Bank, LAC units. “High Food Prices. LAC Responses to a New Normal”

Total world and ABPU production growth projections for the period (annual growth rates in %) Source: OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook for total world; and INAI, FIESP- ICONE and CAPECO-PY, SENACSA, CADELPA and CAP for ABPU

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Fuente: UN Comtrade y ALADI ABPU: Exportaciones Agroindustriales Miles de USD FOB

13 CONFIDENTIAL the size means predicted growth on demand for food from 2000 to 2030 Annual growth in population ( ) Former communist bloc Industrial East Asia (incl. China) South Asia (incl. India) Africa Middle East & North Africa Annual growth in nutritive intake per capita ( ) Latin America SE Asia, Africa and India are the main food demand pullers Sources: United Nations, FAO, LDC analysis