Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service with me, Gideon Long, where all this week we're looking at the economies of Latin America.

On Monday, we outlined the problems the region faces. So today I want to look at the positives, the things that work, the sectors where Latin America is or can be a world-beater.

Latin America at the moment is looking at some really extraordinary opportunities,

once-in-a-generation opportunities, because the things it makes, the things it produces,

the things it grows are really in demand all around the world.

I think we can have a new story and a different story and a positive story

in Latin America. So we just need to choose a course, choose the right direction of travel,

and travel all together. So let's travel all together and continue this week's

business daily journey around the economies of Latin America.

Yesterday we heard about Brazil's green gold, its booming agricultural business.

But Brazil's not the only country in the region with the potential to feed the world.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Latin America and the

Caribbean will account for 18%

of all global food exports by the start of the next decade. Not bad for a place that's home

to just 8% of the world's population and 13% of its landmass. Last year, my colleague Stefani Agotsa

looked at agriculture in her native Peru, and in particular at the boom

in a so-called superfood, the blueberry.

The global production of blueberries has tripled in the past decade, and the global dynamics

of the industry have changed radically.

Piero Getsi, former Minister of Production in Peru,

told me more about the blueberry boom in his country.

Peru exports almost $1.5 billion of blueberries,

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