Vol. 1 · Issue 3 · 2026
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🌽 Ancestral

Peru's INIA sends 71 native seed varieties to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Peru's National Institute for Agrarian Innovation deposited 71 cultivars of quinoa, kiwicha, chili pepper and tomato to safeguard the country's agricultural biodiversity for future generations.

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🌽 Ancestral

CIMMYT returns 35 native maize varieties to displaced Guerrero farmers

Mexico's agriculture ministry, CIMMYT and INIFAP are restoring native maize seeds lost to forced displacement in the Montaña region of Guerrero, starting with 35 germplasm accessions.

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🦗 Insect Protein

Enthos is turning food waste into insect protein for animal and fish feed

Backed by S2G Investments and Ocean 14 Capital, the Colombian company is building Enthos 1, a black soldier fly plant designed to become one of Latin America's largest insect protein sites.

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↗ Cover Story
INIA Chile · October 19, 2026

Ñuble farmers study Guatemala's macadamia model to diversify amid drought

A delegation of 21 Ñuble farmers toured Guatemala's macadamia farms and plants as part of a Sustainable Fruit Growing project exploring the nut as a drought-tolerant crop for the Chilean region.

A delegation of 21 farmers from Chile's Ñuble region traveled to Guatemala for a 10-day technical tour focused on macadamia cultivation, industrial processing and commercialization, according to INIA Chile.

The trip was organized under the Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Fruit Growing project, led by INIA Quilamapu and financed by the Ñuble Regional Government, with support from the Ñuble Farmers Association.

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Cover story takeaways
  • 21 farmers from Ñuble, Chile, toured Guatemala's macadamia farms, cooperatives and processing plants over 10 days.
  • The trip is part of INIA Quilamapu's Sustainable Fruit Growing project, which plans to establish two demonstration macadamia plots in Ñuble.
  • Guatemala, Latin America's top macadamia producer, was chosen as a reference for its production, industrialization and export models.
🤖 Food Tech

The Brazilian company bringing AI and autonomous robots to sugarcane fields

Britaldo Hernandez is pushing Solinftec beyond robots and software toward becoming a 'physical AI' knowledge company built on a decade of field data from Brazil and the US.

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