FONTAGRO LATAM Impact Agrobioentrepreneurship Contest 2025 – YOA

Deadline: August 30, 2025

Applications are open for the FONTAGRO LATAM Impact Agrobioentrepreneurship Contest 2025. FONTAGRO, along with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and companions of the Latin American Bioeconomy Network, announce the “LATAM Impact Agrobioentrepreneurship 2025” contest.

The goal of this competitors is to establish, incubate and speed up the 100 initiatives with the best influence within the area, thus contributing to the consolidation of an innovation ecosystem that responds to essential challenges reminiscent of local weather change, meals safety and the transition to extra sustainable financial fashions.

Categories

Proposals ought to deal with the event of services or products primarily based on the sustainable use of biodiversity and biomass, by means of science, expertise and innovation in one of many following precedence sectors of the bioeconomy:

• Biomaterials, bioproducts and bioenergy: They change fossil merchandise with sustainable options:
  • Green chemistry: biodegradable solvents, non-poisonous resins.
  • Biomaterials: bioplastics, compostable packaging, biomass panels.
  • Bioenergy: biodiesel from used oils, biogas, bioethanol.
• New bioproducts for meals, cosmetics, well being and effectively-being: Transformation of organic sources for acutely aware shoppers:
  • Functional meals: nutraceuticals, various flours, probiotics.
  • Biocosmetics: pure merchandise with out artificial chemical compounds.
  • Biopharmaceuticals: therapeutic extracts, pure antimicrobials.
• Sustainable bio-inputs and agri-meals applied sciences: Improving effectivity and decreasing influence on agricultural manufacturing programs:
  • Agricultural bioinputs: biofertilizers, biopesticides.
  • Agroecological applied sciences: sensible irrigation, soil decontamination.
  • Nutritional worth: tradition enrichment, organic fermentation.
• Bioservices and nature-primarily based options: Use of pure processes with financial, social and environmental advantages:
  • Agrobiotourism: academic experiences in sustainable manufacturing.
  • Bioremediation: cleansing of soil and water with residing organisms.
  • Ecosystem companies: conservation of pollinators, carbon sequestration.

Benefits

• Vouchers of as much as USD $15,000 will likely be awarded to six profitable agribusinesses to help their incubation and acceleration course of.
• In addition, 30 excellent startups will take part in a specialised incubation and acceleration program that can start in February 2026, and the 100 finest proposals will likely be part of LATAM’s first catalog of influence agrienterprises.

Eligibility

Proposals might be submitted by:

• Agricultural producers, producer organizations, and/or personal corporations working in any IDB borrowing nation in Latin America and/or Spain.
• Any analysis and/or public or personal growth establishment or group reminiscent of universities, analysis facilities, NGOs, and so forth. working in any IDB borrowing nation in Latin America and/or Spain.
• Public sector of any IDB borrowing nation in Latin America and/or Spain.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to FONTAGRO LATAM Impact Agrobioentrepreneurship Contest.