The digital transition in Latin America’s agricultural sector has developed rapidly since the COVID crisis. It has the potential to revolutionize many aspects of agriculture and food systems, such as production practices, access to and management of means of production, access to natural resources, rural extension and product marketing. The digital transition also offers the potential to revolutionize policy tools for agriculture. While this transition brings multiple benefits for meeting the challenges facing agriculture in Latin America, it also entails risks, especially in terms of widening the gap between family farmers and agribusiness. With its 13 chapters presenting studies at the regional level and at the national or territorial level in 6 Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Mexico), this book, an initiative of the PP-AL network – Public Policies and Rural Development in Latin America – provides an overview of the dynamics of the digital transition in the agricultural sector in Latin American countries, territories and chains. It analyzes the current advances and limitations of digitalization, as well as the policies related to the digital transition in various countries of the region.

This book is a partial translation into English of the book originally published in Spanish: Le Coq J.-F., F. Goulet, F. Bert, J. Van Loon and D. Martinez-Baron (Eds.) 2024. Transición digital en agricultura y políticas públicas en América Latina, Rio de Janeiro: E-papers, 751 p. doi 10.48207/9786587065878.