Prospective Roadmap for Peru's Agro-export Transition
Full STRIKE methodology application to produce a White Paper supporting B Corp certification adoption in Peru's agro-export sector and directly influencing the PENX 2025-2035.
Project sheet
Horizon
2026-2027
Methodology
Full STRIKE (6 phases)
Executing entity
Instituto del Futuro (IDF)
Strategic partners
CEIF · Vallformosa Foundation · IRTA
Geographic scope
Peru -> Latin America (reference: Spain/EU)
Core output
White Paper + Policy Brief + 2 virtual events
Peru is one of the world's leaders in fresh agro-food exports. Its table grapes, blueberries, avocados, and asparagus sectors generate more than USD 6 billion annually and sustain the livelihoods of thousands of rural families in Ica, Piura, La Libertad, Lambayeque, and Áncash.
Yet this accumulated success is being structurally threatened by a simultaneous transformation in the rules of international trade, and the sector is not prepared to face it.
Four signals converge to define the moment:
The EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive obliges large European companies to audit and manage the human rights and environmental impacts of their global supply chains. Peru's European agro-export buyers will be required to demand evidence of sustainable governance from their suppliers starting in 2029.
Brazil and Argentina gain preferential access to the European market with incorporated sustainability requirements. The B Corp movement is more mature in Mercosur than in Andean economies. Peru's direct competitors enter with tariff advantages and greater sustainability standard maturity.
Peru's National Export Strategic Plan is under active revision: an opening that happens once per decade. This is the opportunity to incorporate B Corp policies as a recognized voluntary standard before the window closes.
Winery Vallformosa has completed its own B Corp transition in the European agro-food context and is seeking, through its foundation, to transfer its bioeconomy model to Latin America. This level of availability of a certified international reference is exceptional and time-limited.
The convergence of these four signals defines a window of opportunity measured in months, not years. The project is designed specifically to operate within that window.
The project's central objective is to produce a methodologically rigorous, expert-validated White Paper that supports the adoption of B Corp certification policies in Peru's agro-export sectors, and directly influences public policy instruments - PENX 2025-2035, AGRORURAL, and DL 1551 - through voluntary, market-aligned mechanisms.
This project is not an academic publication. It is a public policy operation designed to generate measurable institutional change, within a specific time window and with clearly defined influence mechanisms.
Mechanism
Quantified evidence base free from sectoral interests
Change outcome
Decision-makers have political backing to act
Mechanism
Shared vision of the desired future among the private sector, government, and academia
Change outcome
Alignment among actors that usually operate in silos
Mechanism
White Paper + Policy Brief + event + Foro del Futuro
Change outcome
Direct path from evidence to institutional public policy
Peru
STRIKE methodological oversight. CLA workshop. Scenario design. Backcasting. QA review of all deliverables.
Peru
Lead executing entity. Project management. Delphi Panel. Foro del Futuro. Government relations (PROMPERÚ, MINCETUR, MIDAGRI).
Spain
Transfer of the European B Corp model. White Paper validation. Dissemination in Spain and the EU. Lima-Barcelona event.
Spain
Technical and scientific participation. Findings validation. White Paper co-authorship. Lima-Barcelona event.
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