July 12, 2024
Food security is intimately linked to national security in all countries around the world. Therefore, it is essential that smallholder farmers have the tools to increase their productivity, contribute to economic growth, and improve their incomes and quality of life.
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July 12, 2024
Areas covered in the agreement include international trade and regional integration, digital agriculture, gender equality and youth, and health and safety of agri-food products, topics encompassed in IICA's technical cooperation through its seven hemispheric programs.
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July 11, 2024
Participatory public policies that empower farmers, build resilience in rural areas through access to credit, innovation, science and technology, and strengthen food security, are the best way to preserve the legacy of Norman Borlaug, the American agronomist who laid the foundations of modern agriculture, saved millions of people from hunger, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.
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July 10, 2024
El Director General del Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), Manuel Otero, inició una trascendente visita de trabajo a México, en la que la seguridad alimentaria y los esfuerzos para favorecer una mayor resiliencia de los productores serán temas de discusión con autoridades de los sectores público y privado nacionales y extranjeros.
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July 9, 2024
The Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture of Brazil, Paulo Teixeira, and the Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero, participated in a virtual meeting where the Leaders of Rurality presented the progress of their joint work initiated in April this year.
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July 9, 2024
Katy is part of a group of rural women from the department of El Paraíso, in eastern Honduras, who left the countryside, graduated from university, and returned to their first love, coffee growing. These women also began other productive activities such as beekeeping and growing bananas and lemons through the cooperative enterprise “Women in Action.”
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July 4, 2024
Funded by GIZ and implemented by IICA in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, the ALER4TA project seeks to enhance the response capacity of countries to the threat of Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (Foc TR4).
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July 3, 2024
The National Institute of Technological Education (INET) of Argentina and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) have taken the first step in a joint effort aimed at strengthening and providing better tools to agricultural technical schools in this South American country, one of the world's largest food producers.
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July 3, 2024
The use of waste from pineapple and coffee production will be key for biogas production, contributing to the transformation of the country’s energy matrix.
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