To promote greater investment in agriculture, to provide incentives for research and technology transfer and to strengthen family agriculture are three of the recommendations contained in a document IICA sent to the OAS on how to increase agriculture’s contribution to food security in the Americas.
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The goal is to strengthen the Sugar Industry Research and Development Institute.
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Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the hemisphere charged IICA and the OAS General Secretariat with supporting multilateral actions being implemented in the region to ensure food and nutritional security.
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San José, Costa Rica
June 11, 2012
El IICA es el coordinador técnico de la plataforma que apoya la ejecución de esta estrategia de desarrollo rural en los países miembros del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana.
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12 cooperation agencies, including IICA, presented a report to the G20 in which they proposed specific measures to increase agricultural productivity and its support for food security.
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ICA organized a forum to discuss the interagency report that recommends that the G20 leaders act in favour of agriculture in order to improve its contribution to food security.
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A delegation of experts is representing the Institute at the United nations conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20.
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According to the IICA Representative in Brazil, “the green economy and family agriculture are topics that need to be placed on the sustainable development agendas for discussion at Rio-20.
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San José, Costa Rica
June 21, 2012
The new technical information and training center will provide the Institute’s member countries with informative material, in print and on line, useful in making decisions related to agriculture and trade.
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Headquarters. 600 m. northeast of the Ipís-Coronado intersection. Vázquez de Coronado, San Isidro 11101 – Costa Rica. San José, Costa Rica
Tel (+506) 2216 0222
Fax (+506) 2216 0233
