August 28, 2024
Mattos observed that agriculture, which usually is not included in the discussions at the highest political level, is now high on the international agenda, thanks to Brazil’s Presidency of the G20 during 2024 and the holding of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30) in Belem do Pará in 2025.
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August 27, 2024
The winners were chosen from a group of 152 AgTechs across 21 countries that applied following a call for submissions launched by the Institute for the event, which will take place at the end of September in Costa Rica.
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August 26, 2024
The Living Soils in the Americas Program is raising awareness of the importance of soil health for global food security and is an instrument designed to contribute to the sustainability of agriculture and the quality of life in rural areas of the hemisphere.
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August 23, 2024
Uruguay’s Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, Fernando Mattos, made the announcement in a videoconference with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ Minister of Agriculture, Saboto Caesar. The donation will include seeds for chard, broccoli, pumpkin, onion, cauliflower, lettuce, corn, melon, pepper, tomato, cucumber, and other vegetables, aiming to strengthen food security in the Caribbean nation.
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August 22, 2024
In a discussion with the 2024 generation of interns, the Director General of the Institute, Manuel Otero, highlighted the extraordinary professional and personal opportunities offered by the program and committed to further strengthening it in the next year and a half of his tenure.
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August 20, 2024
The aviation sector plays a crucial role in mitigating the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, since it accounts for between 2% and 3% of global CO2 emissions and 12% of emissions produced by the transportation sector.
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August 19, 2024
Massruhá and Otero signed an agreement at Embrapa’s headquarters in Brasília to strengthen international technical cooperation. The commitment aims to promote the exchange of public policies, technologies, and knowledge, with the objective of implementing concrete actions to benefit the agricultural sector in the near future.
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August 16, 2024
With an initial duration of two years, the agreement opens a series of opportunities for collaboration with the INSPER Agro Global program, which since 2019 has been analyzing the vectors of transformation and the insertion of Brazil in global agribusiness, contributing to the design of public policies and the training of leaders in the public and private sectors.
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August 14, 2024
Otero and Fávaro also discussed the organization of the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture – Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA), which will be held in Brazil in 2025. The Conference brings together the 34 Agriculture Ministers of the Americas every two years and is the main governing body of IICA. It will be held prior to COP30, which will be hosted in Belém do Pará, Brazil. Fávaro assured the full support of his country in organizing this meeting.
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