February 11, 2021
Rattan Lal, 2020 World Food Prize Laureate and IICA Goodwill Ambassador, underscored the relationship between soil quality and the sustainability of Latin America’s position as one of the major global food producers and exporters.
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February 10, 2021
The Director of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) will bring together the technical groups they lead to develop a joint work agenda.
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February 8, 2021
Speaking at IICA, Fernando Schwanke, Brazil’s Secretary of Family Farming and Cooperativism, outlined his country’s new generation of public policies to bolster a sector that is key to food security and territorial development.
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February 5, 2021
The Ministers of Agriculture of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru signed a Declaration presented during the most recent session of the Andean Agricultural Forum, organized with support from IICA. Inter-agency committees will support the fulfillment of the agricultural agenda proposed in the document (see Ministerial Declaration).
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February 2, 2021
Water efficiency and rural development are other key issues that will continue to be addressed through joint efforts for the benefit of Chilean agriculture and rural areas.
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January 29, 2021
Improving market access, strengthening competitiveness and promoting the implementation of business strategies that facilitate diversification are key elements for fostering international trade in agricultural products in the Andean Region.
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January 29, 2021
The agreement will focus on facilitating trade and farmers’ access to different markets and consumers, via a technological platform that enables transparency and equity.
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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
January 28, 2021
In this country, IICA is assisting the Moruga Hill Rice Multipurpose Cooperative Society to launch its Red Gold Hill Rice brand, under the IICA Director General’s special COVID-19 initiative – the Single Fund for Technical Cooperation.
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January 28, 2021
At the invitation of Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General to the 2021 Food Systems Summit, IICA Director General, Manuel Otero, will represent the agriculture and rural sectors of the Americas in one of the four main support mechanisms of the global meeting.
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