The thematic area seeks to foster sustainable and resilient agrifood systems through improved public policy design, inclusive governance systems and digital innovations. Rimisp approaches agrifood systems and climate change adaptation from a territorial approach, bringing together a set of actors, institutions and civil society organizations at different levels around social, institutional and productive innovations. The innovations and knowledge facilitated by Rimisp and its partners seek to weave dynamic agro-food systems that are resilient to the climate crisis, sustainable in food production and marketing, and effective in promoting healthy diets.

Thematic area that seeks to contribute to social cohesion and the inclusive participation of people, social organizations and institutions in territorial dynamics. To this end, it focuses on generating evidence on the inequalities that affect historically excluded groups, such as women, youth, indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants. In addition to research development, this area promotes the expansion of the capacities of social actors and their political, social, economic and cultural participation, so that their visions and proposals for well-being are incorporated into local development.

We understand the TSAs as complex social processes crossed by power asymmetries, in which diverse interests of collective actors (territorial and extraterritorial) are manifested as evidence of the different ways of understanding the territory and its development. This area analyzes tensions, disputes and/or controversies that affect territories in terms of their functioning and governance, access to and use of their resources, the ways in which these are distributed, and the criteria that define the inclusion/exclusion of the different social actors in the deliberation and decision-making that determine their development trajectories. Based on the understanding of the changes that these conflicts provoke, their contribution or not to the promotion of virtuous territorial dynamics, we propose strategies for their treatment and transformation, trying to link the visions of the different actors involved, especially those historically excluded.

We have an impact at different levels ranging from the community and more local to regional, national and Latin American, in order to consolidate organizational processes, governance, institutional development and the construction of public policies with a territorial approach that promote social, economic and productive inclusion of people living in poverty and vulnerability in Latin America. We also seek to make this advocacy possible by promoting processes of dialogue and encounter between different actors and at different levels.