Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

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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.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 6, 2021

Andean Ministers of Agriculture back Global Alliance against banana disease and call for increased joint international actions

IICA is the coordinator of the Secretariat of the Allianceā€™s Executive Committee, whose mission is to support the banana industry in the fight against the destructive Fusarium TR4 fungus, by developing knowledge, technology, and a definitive scientific solution to the disease.

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May 6, 2021

IICA to organize virtual dialogues to bolster the position of the agriculture sector of the Americas ahead of the Food Systems Summit

The meetings will be organized under the banner of the Summit Dialogues, requested by the organizers, as a means of stimulating discussion prior to the global forum. The issues to be addressed will include cooperatives, the bioeconomy, agricultural digitalization, the One Health approach and international trade.

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