Amidst ancestral crops such as corn or oregano, a number of microorganisms are hidden. They could help other plants protect themselves against insects or pathogens (bio-controllers). The first steps are taken by UC Davis Chile and UTA last April.
The Chief of the Viticulture and Enology Department, David Block, assures that efficient use of water and energy is key, as well as automatization of processes. In California there is already a model of a autosustainable winery. Article written by Paloma Díaz for El Mercurio, one of the most important Chilean newspapers.
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.
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.
Focused on contributing in the transfer knowledge about technology use, wine cellar good practices and tools to improve vine quality, UC Davis Chile is getting the last details ready to launch the Viticulture and Enology Extensionism Center in the South of Chile.
OCTOBER 2016 -Research to Business Catalyst (R2B Catalyst), the first scientific HUB for business development in Chile was inaugurated in the heart of Providencia.
The traditional approach is that functional foods – those which contain biologically active components - offer health benefits and reduce the risk of disease. However, international research indicates that 70% of the population is skeptical about functional foods and 63% state that there is a lack of information about food and its benefits.
Facing the challenges of today's agriculture requires a multidisciplinary effort. For this reason, Hernán Orellana, executive director of Telefónica R+D, and Alan Bennett, executive director of University of California, Davis in Chile (UC Davis Chile) signed a cooperation agreement between the two institutions that form part of Corfo’s Program to Attract International Centers of Excellence.
Pablo Zamora, Chief Science Officer of UC Davis Chile, highlights Chile biodiversity of extreme environments. It indicates that among them, there is a high probability of existing functions and organisms that can be used in agriculture, that no one else in the world has.
