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Program | Legal Framework for Agribusiness

Start date:

05.06.2026
Duration: 58,5 hours. 13 days – divided into 2 modules.
Modality: Online

Presentation

El Department of Business Law This program organizes the study of the main legal issues that regulate Agribusiness from a comprehensive point of view, including the legal treatment of businesses in the primary production of raw materials and food, along with the most relevant issues that govern the diversity of industries linked to the sector.

 

Approved by FD resolution: 74/14

Objectives

➤ To understand the legal framework that applies to the diversity of businesses derived from agriculture, both in relation to the primary production of raw materials and food, as well as to the multiple industries linked to the sector.

➤ Analyze the different levels of legal regulation of agricultural and agro-industrial businesses, from a practical perspective of business reality in the national and international context.

➤ Incorporate specific legal content integrated into real business activity, considering the various stages of production, marketing, transport, distribution in the domestic market and export of products.

➤ Reflect on the articulation between the public and private sectors, regarding the most convenient form of interaction between the need for regulation by the State on the one hand, and the needs and guarantees of entrepreneurs in the private sector on the other.

➤ To exercise the ability to analyze the current legal framework from a comprehensive perspective, in order to identify pending legal modifications that will promote the growth of the sector and the country.

Teaching Methodology

The program will be conducted through online classes, with each session consisting of two classes featuring different topics and instructors to maximize the learning experience. Each class will include theoretical and practical content, with participation in discussions of integrated case studies planned for some sessions. Students will have access to reading materials on relevant legal doctrine and jurisprudence in digital format prior to each class.

The course will utilize an oral presentation format, with each speaker free to structure their module's presentation and encourage discussion and participation. All available methodological and pedagogical techniques, tools, and resources will be employed, drawing on judicial cases, practical examples, and precedents from various jurisdictions.

Addressed to

Lawyers whose professional practice is linked to agricultural businesses, and was designed to provide specific theoretical and practical content for those who practice the profession in the field of a law firm, for those who work as internal advisors to companies and also for those lawyers and other professionals of related careers who work in public bodies and require knowledge of the legal framework applicable to the sector.

The program will provide specific knowledge of relevant, conflicting and novel legal issues in the agricultural-livestock and agro-industrial sectors, in order to achieve a differentiated and superior professional practice.

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Extra information

  • Introduction to Agribusiness: economic context and legal framework
  • Legal organization of the agricultural enterprise
  • Traditional agricultural businesses: Typical and atypical agricultural contracts
  • New agricultural and agro-industrial businesses
  • Trust applied to agricultural businesses
  • Special Labor Regime: Agricultural Employment Contract Law
  • Financing alternatives in agriculture: SGR
  • Trust applied to agricultural businesses
  • Intellectual Property of Plant Varieties
  • New agricultural and agro-industrial businesses
  • Legal framework for grain trading
  • Livestock production. SENASA regulatory framework.
  • Environmental issues related to agricultural production.
  • Alternative dispute resolution methods
  • International trade and customs regime.
  • Export Contracts for Grains, Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils.
  • Forward contracts, futures and agricultural options.
  • Food Regulations.
  • Insolvency processes in agricultural companies.
  • Tax regime for Agribusiness.
  • Bioeconomy and biofuels.
  • Digitalization in agriculture

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