October 23, 2020
Attending the meeting were Tom Vilsack, former United States Secretary of Agriculture and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council; Ted McKinney, U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs; Fritz Schneider, Chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock; and Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, among other specialists.
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October 21, 2020
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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San Jose, Costa Rica
October 21, 2020
Express Support for IICA’s Drive for Science Based Policies Globally
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October 20, 2020
The Global Bioeconomy Summit 2020 will take place from 16 to 20 November.
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October 19, 2020
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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October 16, 2020
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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October 16, 2020
The use of biofuels provides important benefits such as foreign currency savings and higher exports. With new paradigms in mobility, the aviation and maritime trade sectors are expecting to expand.
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October 16, 2020
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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October 15, 2020
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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