Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

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May 17, 2021

Bayer online course on the IICA platform will help prevent the disease that is threatening banana production

The course is free and available on the IICA training platform (https://elearning.iica.int/). It provides important information about Fusarium, its historical, social, and economic consequences, its rate of propagation, and how it could affect global food security.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 14, 2021

Reinforcement of policies, research, innovation ecosystems and markets: key to strengthening the role of the bioeconomy in transforming food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

In a document prepared by IICA and the ICABR, experts concluded that there are five main ways that the bioeconomy contributes to strengthening and transforming food systems.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 14, 2021

ā€œTo continue teaching other farmers how to boost production and to fight coffee leaf rust is one of the legacies of PROCAGICAā€

ā€œMy greatest satisfaction is knowing that I can use what PROCAGICA taught me to help othersā€, says Honduran coffee farmer, Eustasio NicolĆ”s Aguilar.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 13, 2021

Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean see Food Systems Summit 2021 as an opportunity to secure more efficient, inclusive agriculture

IICA took part in a meeting to exchange ideas and experiences on how to ensure safer, more nutritious foods for the global population organized by the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN), which is based in Africa.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 13, 2021

Guyana seeks Brazilian support to spur agricultural leadership in the Caribbean

Tereza Cristina, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil, and Zulfikar Mustapha, Minister of Agriculture of Guyana, met to set in motion an extensive cooperation agenda. Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, also took part in the meeting.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 12, 2021

Cooperatives are pivotal to food system sustainability

IICA has launched a series of virtual dialogues to ensure that the agriculture sector of the Americas will have a strong voice at the UN Food Systems Summit 2021.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 11, 2021

One hundred representatives of the public and private sectors in the Caribbean received training on nutrition labelling.

The training was imparted in a virtual seminar organized by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA), and IICA.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 10, 2021

Revamping agrifood systems: the key to developing the agriculture sector

Casio Luiselli, university researcher and member of IICAā€™s Advisory Council for Food Security in the Americas, insists that the current health crisis poses new challenges for rural areas and their systems of political and economic organization ā€“ challenges that necessitate the renewal of agrifood systems.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 7, 2021

IICA and its partners will launch a new virtual business round for agrifood businesses with a view to strengthening intra-regional trade

Registration for the event, to be held between May 24 and 28, is already open.

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