Global Nutrition: Bio-inputs, innovation and sustainable agricultural practices.

7 May 2025. Medellin, Colombia.

Regional experts and representatives from the public and private sectors will gather at the 6th Annual SIPLA Conference to address a topic of global and regional relevance, regarding the role of bioinputs in food production.

On Friday 11 October, the first workshop on unfair competition was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with experts from both the region and Brazil. Professor Pedro Marcos Nunes Barbosa coordinated the event.The objective of the workshop, which was attended by judges, academics and litigants, was to discuss the first version of the framework for a comparative study on unfair competition.

The objective of this workshop was to discuss the most relevant aspects for the global governance of DSI and the strategy to be adopted by Latin American countries in international negotiations. Among others, the definition of DSI, repercussions on existing national regulatory frameworks, types of benefits to be shared, triggers, governance and criteria for the distribution of funds, exceptions, compliance, sanctions and repercussions on multilateral mechanisms in other international fora were discussed.

In the framework of the Regional Instrument on Permitted Uses in Copyright project, a specific workshop on text and data mining (TDM) in the Latin American context was held in Curitiba, Brazil. The aim was to identify copyright challenges arising from these technologies, especially when TDM involves the manipulation of large amounts of protected material. The use of TDM and Artificial Intelligence to extract patterns or generate new content presents a debate between the benefits of innovation and the rights of original creators.

The workshop, held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, originates, in search of new relevant lines of research, from discussions held at the workshop "Regional copyright instrument" previously held in Bogota, Colombia, on 30 November 2023. The main objective of this workshop was to explore the concept of transformative use and its dynamics in legislation and practices in the region.

Global Nutrition: Towards a smart production system.

The 5th Annual Conference of the SIPLA 2024 Initiative has focused on the incorporation of new technologies in food production, with the aim of promoting a paradigm shift towards more efficient production systems to favour global nutrition. Emerging technologies in smart agriculture and their regulatory challenges were addressed through an interdisciplinary perspective.