UC Davis Chile and the University of Talca held the second version of the Climate Smart Agro, an annual platform which presents high impact science and technology for agro-climatic adaptation in Chile. This year the seminar was held on two dates and in two different cities: Tuesday 29 August in Talca and Thursday 31 August in Santiago.

This number includes an opinion column by Joanna Regulska,  Vice Provost and Associate Chancellor of Global Affairs, because UC Davis Chile now is part of this UC Davis’ division. Precisely,  the main news provide more details about this appointment.

The Foundation for Agricultural Innovation (FIA), together with the Center of Research and Innovation (CII) of the vineyard Concha & Toro and the University of California, Davis in Chile (UC Davis Chile) implemented the young Agri-Food Panel in the context of the fair “I Believe in Chile”. The aim was to start up a dialogue amongst entrepreneurs, research centers and companies about the challenges of innovation connected to the agri-food world with different strategies and realities.

Pablo Zamora, UC Davis Chile’s Associated Director and co-founder of The Not Company, the Food Tech Company -that uses artificial intelligence to create delicious, sustainable and accessible food, all originating from plants-, will participate in “I Believe in Chile” (Creo en Chile) in order to relate his revolutionary entrepreneurship in the food sector and about his experience in UC Davis Chile conducting research industry-driven.

Friday, March 31st, Carol Pérez, U.S. Ambassador to Chile, came to UC Davis Chile’s offices to meet its team, led by Alan Bennett.

We are very pleased to invite you to participate in the talk "Sustainable Groundwater Management", by doctor Graham Fogg, Land, Air and Water Resources Department's professor and researcher at the Center for Watershed Sciences, UC Davis. The talk will be Thursday, March 30th at 11:00 am in UC Davis Chile, Andrés Bello 2299, office 1102. Providencia (metro Los Leones). If you want to participate, please send an e-mail to [email protected]

There is little time to go before the International Fair of Technologies (IFT) AGRO 2017, the Chile’s National Farm Technologies Exhibition and Conference, begins. Talca will host the event whose will take place between Wednesday, 5th and Friday, 7th April.

IFT Agro 2017 is the time and place where Chile’s farm producers can meet face-to-face with global farm equipment manufacturers and service suppliers to learn about the latest technologies designed to help them increase yields, reduce costs, and improve their bottom line results.

Pablo Zamora, UC Davis Chile’s Associate Director and Chief Science Officer, was named UC Davis Global Affairs’ Senior Fellow.

Global Affairs is a university division led by Joanna Regulska, Vice Provost and Associate Chancellor, whose mission is to inspire global curiosity, understanding and engagement among the UC Davis’ community.

We include an opinion column by Soroush Parsa, Program Coordinator Agronomy and Environment and Scientific Director of the Climate Smart Agro platform. Precisely,  the main news is about the first activity of this platform. In every edition we explain a research line, in this case its “Agroclimate Technologies” and the installation of four Surface Renewal stations in VSPT Wine Group’s vineyards. The end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 have been very busy for UC Davis Chile, leading and supporting semminars.

We hope you enjoy reading the third edition of our newsletter. As the previous numbers, the cover includes an opinion column, in this case of our Chief Business Development Officer, Javier Ramirez. The main news is about R2B Catalyst’s inauguration, a program inspired by the model of UC Davis’ Venture Catalyst. As this initiative was created by Dushyant Pathak, Associate Vice-Chancellor of UC Davis, he came to the event.