To support the efforts of the member countries to modernize agriculture and enhance its contribution to economic, social and environmental development by promoting technological and institutional innovation policies and processes that will promote and facilitate the incorporation of new knowledge and technologies into agricultural production chains.

Areas of Concentration will focus on:

• A prospective vision of technology and innovation as they apply to agriculture;
• support for institutional modernization and the design of technology policies for the development and incorporation of technological innovations;
• strengthening of the hemispheric system for cooperation among countries in technological innovation for agriculture, and of its linkage to the international research system;
• Promotion of the management of information in support of technological innovation processes;
• Biotechnology and biosafety; and
• Promotion of horizontal cooperation in agro-energy and bio fuels