Massruhá and Otero signed an agreement at Embrapa’s headquarters in Brasília to strengthen international technical cooperation. The commitment aims to promote the exchange of public policies, technologies, and knowledge, with the objective of implementing concrete actions to benefit the agricultural sector in the near future.
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With an initial duration of two years, the agreement opens a series of opportunities for collaboration with the INSPER Agro Global program, which since 2019 has been analyzing the vectors of transformation and the insertion of Brazil in global agribusiness, contributing to the design of public policies and the training of leaders in the public and private sectors.
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Otero and Fávaro also discussed the organization of the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture – Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA), which will be held in Brazil in 2025. The Conference brings together the 34 Agriculture Ministers of the Americas every two years and is the main governing body of IICA. It will be held prior to COP30, which will be hosted in Belém do Pará, Brazil. Fávaro assured the full support of his country in organizing this meeting.
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The activity is part of IICA's commitment to the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture to promote the use of biofertilizers, mainly in the country's coastal dryland sector, for producers affected by drought, eroded soils, the effects of climate change and high fertilizer prices.
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The “Dr. Manuel Otero Inter-American Chair: Innovations in the Agri-Food Systems of the Tropics,” in recognition of the more than 35 years that the Director General of IICA has dedicated to the promotion and development of tropical and temperate agriculture in the Americas
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Carbon harvesting in the agenda of sustainable agriculture was one of the central topics in the special section of the congress that AAPRESID designed in collaboration with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), focusing on perspectives and opportunities for producers offered by agri-food systems in the Americas.
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The panel on digital innovation and the digitalization of agriculture at the congress was one of four organized jointly by AAPRESID and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), as part of a special section addressing future perspectives and the opportunities that agri-food systems in the Americas offer to producers.
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The activity was organized by AAPRESID a network of farmers that has been connecting innovation, technology and knowledge for more than three decades and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
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The Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, says that agriculture has made enormous progress over the last 60 years in feeding a burgeoning population with fewer natural resources, and he expects it to continue improving in the future, both in terms of productivity and its environmental impact.
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