Senior officials from almost 30 countries agreed that the region, considered the world's largest producer and exporter of agricultural products, should make its voice heard at the Summit, which seeks to lay the foundations for a positive transformation of food systems.
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Brathwaite—the IICA Director General from 2002 and 2010—who later served as Ambassador to China for his country, Barbados, provides an essential view of the economic rise of the Popular Republic of China from a perspective that is at once Caribbean and universal.
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The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labor of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saboto Caesar, indicated that the island country is encouraging its consumers to buy Caribbean products. "There is only one market and only one economy in the Caribbean Community, and we must promote interregional trade", he explained.
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Víctor Villalobos, Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, addressed members of IICA’s Advisory Council for Food Security in the Americas and specially invited guests, among them, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, Michael Kremer.
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Roseau, Dominica
March 11, 2021
The project was to build capacity of farmers organization in six Caribbean countries including Dominica
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It features photographs by Mexican artist Amaury Barrera and Brazilian photographer Cecilia Duarte, which form part of the TLAOLI and “Soul of Rurality” exhibitions, respectively.
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Scientist, Ohio State University professor and IICA Goodwill Ambassador, Rattan Lal, delivered an address on regenerative agriculture to Latin American and Caribbean farmers.
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The program includes a Rural School for Ecological Restoration, which will provide growers with knowledge and information on ecological restoration and community-based water management.
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One of the objectives of the agreement is to increase the number of regions participating in the organic agriculture system, as an example of social, productive, commercial and environmentally sustainable production.
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