In conferring the title on him, IICA’s Director General, Manuel Otero, highlighted the social contributions of the entrepreneur and Grupo Insud CEO through science, innovation and development. On the same occasion, the Institute introduced its new Representative in Argentina and paid tribute to Argentina’s Ambassador-designate to Brazil, Daniel Scioli.
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IICA’s Director General and Argentina’s Minister of Agriculture crafted a work agenda focusing on issues such as territorial development, family farming and the strengthening of regional economies.
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Prevention and training; reproduction and genetics, as well as control methods will be the three main pillars of a global strategy, which IICA helped to design.
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San Jose, Costa Rica
January 21, 2020
Six countries will participate in the program that impulse bioeconomic models to create better opportunities in rural territories
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With support from IICA, a Costa Rican scientist will participate in a U.S. mission that simulates conditions on Mars, in order to conduct research on blue corn farming.
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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
December 19, 2019
The Institute handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries in Trinidad and Tobago their first resistograph to evaluate trees health and prevent risks under heavy rains, winds and floodings.
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Castries, Saint Lucia
December 18, 2019
The training drew on the experiences of Jamaica for the control of HLB, applicable to Saint Lucia as another developing state with similar resource and human capacities.
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San Jose, Costa Rica
December 18, 2019
Intersectoral coordination and the support of organizations, such as IICA, are part of a strategy to capitalize on the global consumption of cocoa and its by-products
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Speaking at COP25, Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, maintained that actions on climate change should involve ministers from various sectors, civil society and the business sector, thereby incorporating these efforts into the agendas of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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