Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

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November 11, 2019

Rural youth win IICA 2019 Hackathon with their app to protect animals against natural disasters

The competition took place this weekend at IICA Headquarters, with the technical support of SENASA, Microsoft, World Animal Protection and CENFOTEC University.

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

November 7, 2019

Taking a grassroots approach to soil protection and flood control

The roots of the vetiver grass are ideal for soil and slope stabilisation, water flow and flood control.

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November 6, 2019

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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Washington D.C

November 5, 2019

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

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November 4, 2019

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 IICAā€™s capacity to provide technical cooperation in matters related to agrotourism, rural youth, online training and agricultural research.

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November 4, 2019

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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November 1, 2019

Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas agree to strengthen IICAā€™s health program to drive trade

They also called for the expansion and replication of the new Interpretive Center for Tomorrowā€™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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November 1, 2019

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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Colombia

November 1, 2019

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 UrueƱa GĆ³mez, 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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