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.

Are bioinputs a solution for sustainable food production and global nutrition in the Latin American context? What is their innovation potential in the medium and long term? What are their main challenges, problems and limits?
What is the role and influence of Latin America in the innovation and production of bioinputs?

These and other questions will be discussed by experts, focusing on the specific regional regulations on intellectual property, technology transfer and competition law that impact on the production and commercialisation of bioinputs, as well as their impacts on the market.  

The Conference will be public and held on 7 May 2025, at the Central Headquarters of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, in Medellín, Colombia.      

Workshops 

Between 5 and 9 May 2025, four workshops organised by the SIPLA Initiative will be held in Medellin, Colombia. In these closed workshops, regional experts will discuss the research lines of the Initiative and present research results of ongoing projects. On 5 May, the workshop on transformative uses and copyright will be held; on 6 May, the workshop on unfair competition; on 8 May, the workshop on the regional patent instrument; and on 9 May, the workshop on the regulation of green hydrogen. The results of the workshops will be published on the SIPLA website.