Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

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St. Lucia beekeepers to receive support from Argentine experts under the Caribbean API Project

Two Argentine experts will arrive in December in the Caribbean country to train beekeepers in the use of a new variety of hives.

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November 5, 2019

Western Hemisphere Ag Leaders Unite in Support of Science-Based Standards

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IICA partners with CODESPA Foundation, 4-H, as well as the UCR and CENFOTEC universities to accelerate the modernization of agriculture in the Americas

The new agreements will strengthen IICA’s capacity to provide technical cooperation in matters related to agrotourism, rural youth, online training and agricultural research.

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World Tourism Organization and IICA to strengthen rural tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean

The institutions seek to declare 2020 as the International Year of Agrotourism and Rural Tourism.

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Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas agree to strengthen IICA’s health program to drive trade

They also called for the expansion and replication of the new Interpretive Center for Tomorrow’s Agriculture (CIMAG) - the product of a Microsoft-IICA partnership, aimed at revaluing the agriculture sector in the eyes of upcoming generations.

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New Atlas for Agriculture in the Americas: an attractive and accurate portrayal of the agriculture sector

It presents the main indicators with respect to agricultural activity in the hemisphere and is available in print or on the web at atlas.iica.int. The ebook version will be launched in the next few days.

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Deputy Minister of Agricultural Affairs of Colombia: IICA can assist in strengthening family farming

The Deputy Minister of Agricultural Affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture of Colombia, Marcela Urueña Gómez, stated that her country could benefit from the work programs of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in areas such as family and peasant farming as well as bioeconomy.

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Minister of Agriculture of the Bahamas: “Our efforts are to avoid becoming climate refugees”

“The carnage of Dorian over three days taught our citizens lessons about climate change and global warming that years of international commentary on greenhouse gas emissions have not been able to teach," Pintard told the during the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture 2019, held in San José, Costa Rica, and organized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

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Bioeconomy, a key to rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean

In Costa Rica, ECLAC, FAO and IICA presented their most recent joint report on the agriculture and rural sectors in the Americas, during a conference that brought together the ministers of agriculture of the hemisphere.

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