Lineamientos iniciales para una política pública que apalanque financieramente el agro colombiano

Abstract

Agriculture is one of the most important economic activities in production chains and in the survival of its producers and the world´s population. However, the economic and social conditions of this sector in most emerging economies are not the appropriate ones, leading to the questioning of the public policies aimed to agriculture. In this paper, the approach to improve these situations is based on a greater financial leverage for producers, focusing exclusively on the Colombian case. The goal is to provide a new basis for agrarian policies in this specific area. The document contains a review of: the current regulations dedicated to the financial leverage of agriculture, the economic and social data of the sector, and an illustration of the actors’ (users and public policy makers) perspective through an indagatory instrument; so they are contrasted with the objective of obtaining new public guidelines related to financial support in agriculture. Based on this comparison, the proposal built here consists in a long-term public policy, focusing on nine scopes, where standout: financial education, government and banking accompaniment and agricultural insurance.