San José, Costa Rica
October 29, 2020
IICA-BID-MICROSOFT DOCUMENT “RURAL CONNECTIVITY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN – A BRIDGE TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN TIMES OF THE PANDEMIC” The study focused on 24 countries throughout all of Latin America and the Caribbean. Average rural connectivity is approximately half of connectivity levels in urban areas. Limitations in available information about the status of rural connectivity and obsolete regulatory frameworks have hindered the implementation of policies to accelerate rural digital inclusion.
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Héctor Alonso Aguirre, General Manager of the Mancomunidad Trinacional Fronteriza del Río Lempa (MTFRL), a cross-border association of municipalities, outlines the situation in the region. He explains how a joint initiative—European Union (EU)/ Central American Integration System (SICA)/ Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)—can help.
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The Global Bioeconomy Summit 2020 will take place from 16 to 20 November.
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The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and IICA carried out joint initiatives to strengthen knowledge on agriculture and sustainable development in the region.
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AgroArt (https://agroart.iica.int/), for its initial exhibit, contains 30 paintings by Gaby Grobo and Manuel Cancel of Argentina, Francisca Lohmann of Chile, Jorge Checo Blanco of the Dominican Republic, and Sila Estigarribia of Paraguay. It is the first museum to specifically showcase agriculture and rural life.
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This was on the occasion of the commemoration of International Day of Rural Women, organized by IICA, with the support and participation of the IDB, IFAD and the ministers of Agriculture of Barbados and Brazil.
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In 17 of the 23 Latin American and Caribbean countries analyzed, the number of women who report owning a mobile phone is lower compared to men. The greater the gender gap with respect to mobile phone ownership, the lower women’s participation in the workforce. Rural women are the least connected group.
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For three days, leading global authorities on the bioeconomy are meeting virtually for the 2020 International Conference on Applied Bioeconomy, which is the 24th edition of this event.
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This year’s International Conference on Applied Bioeconomy Research, organized by the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR), was co-organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Argentina and IICA.
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