About FLAR

The Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice, FLAR, is a public-private alliance with 30 years of experience that generates and disseminates knowledge, technologies and innovations, through alliances that contribute to the competitiveness and sustainability of rice.

FLAR brings together various organizations linked to rice in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela, in addition to the Alliance Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), as a strategic partner.

The work of FLAR is developed in three main areas: Optimized and integrated genetic improvement, Agronomy of processes for the sustainable production of rice with high productivity and profitability, and Institutional strengthening of FLAR.

FLAR in Figures

We lead the development of innovative rice technologies

Strategies

Testimonials from our Partners

María Fernanda Álvarez | Director of the Crops for Nutrition and Health Area | Alliance Bioversity - CIAT

FLAR has played a fundamental role in the dissemination and promotion of key research in rice cultivation in Latin America.

Walter Cardozo | Adecoagro - Argentina | President of the Administrative Committee of FLAR

We are at a moment in FLAR that I consider quite relevant. If we look at the history of the past 30 years, I think the fundamental contribution was the genetic material aimed at the different conditions we have in Latin America.

Patricia Guzmán | Fedearroz - Colombia | Vice President of the Administrative Committee of FLAR

These 30 years where FLAR has been working on the issue of genetic improvement, I think it has been an important point for our country, to be able to have many more alternatives, to provide farmers with varieties that are of very good adaptability and that our production has been sustainable over time.

Members and other Allies