AGROSAVIA presents its National Technology Transfer Strategy to boost the productivity and competitiveness of Colombia’s agricultural sector

Bogotá, Capital District. August 10, 2026. Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria—AGROSAVIA presents its National Technology Transfer Strategy, one of the Corporation’s most relevant areas of action, aimed at placing scientific knowledge and the technologies developed at the service of the productive transformation of Colombia’s agricultural sector.

The strategy seeks to bridge the gap between research and the territories by promoting ongoing dialogue among researchers, producers, extension professionals, and other stakeholders in the agricultural sector. Under a territorial and co-innovation approach, AGROSAVIA will align its efforts with the agro-food systems of greatest relevance to the country, contributing to making Colombia’s agricultural sector more competitive within a market orientation, sustainability, and competitiveness framework.

 

Twelve regional plans to transform the territories

The strategy will be implemented through 12 regional technology transfer plans, which, in their initial phase, will be implemented using the human, technical, and financial capacities available within the Corporation, with the clear intention of aligning them with public funding. In this way, science is consolidated as a driving force to transform the agricultural sector, generating progressive changes in the short, medium, and long term.

 

Research and Technology Transfer Centers at the service of a competitive and innovative agricultural sector

This initiative recognizes and builds on AGROSAVIA’s extensive track record in technology transfer processes, as well as the positioning of its research and technology transfer centers as open-door spaces for communities and other stakeholders within the National Agricultural Innovation System.

 

Priority agro-food systems

These are, among others, the agro-food systems prioritized by the strategy:

• Family, peasant, ethnic, and community-based agriculture
• Agroecological transition models
• High-potential crops for agricultural exports
• Sustainable livestock production and agroforestry systems
• Cocoa, sugarcane, maize, and plantain, among other strategic production systems

In the words of Miguel Serrano López, Executive Director of AGROSAVIA, “From this moment onward, AGROSAVIA’s Research Centers will be known as Research and Technology Transfer Centers. This change reflects a responsibility: ensuring that science and technology reach the territories, reach the countryside, reach producers, and bring about fundamental transformations in Colombia’s productive landscape.”

AGROSAVIA invites the public, producers, and other stakeholders in the agricultural sector to follow the development of this strategy through its website and social media channels, as well as to participate in the regional events that will be held soon to present the scope of the regional plans and other components of this institutional initiative aimed at fostering a more competitive, sustainable, and innovative agricultural sector.