Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

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Synergies between agriculture and the environment: vital for tackling climate change

In a technical forum held at IICA, cases in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Uruguay were cited as examples of joint work on mitigation and adaptation.

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IICA and conservation organizations create partnership for work in Latin America and the Caribbean

The joint efforts will begin with the promotion of an agroforestry program in Haiti.

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It is vital that the importance of agriculture be recognized in the climate change negotiations

COP 18 gets under way this month and the Director General of IICA has sent the Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas a technical note in which he underscores the importance of the countries including agriculture as a key element in the efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

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IICA and GIZ support Costa Rican initiative designed to reduce emissions caused by the coffee industry

Working with the Ministry of Environment, the organizations are training officials from the agriculture, transport, and waste management sectors to develop a NAMA, a set of actions that helps reduce emissions and for whose implementation financing is available.

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IICA creates observatory of institutional innovations for the Americas

IICA launched the observatory at a forum on the innovative agricultural research models that exist in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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At COP 18, Costa Rica will be presenting the experience of its agriculture sector in addressing climate change

In Doha, Qatar, the MAG and MINAET, with support from IICA, CATIE, and GIZ, will showcase seven examples of how the public and private sectors can act together to deal with the effects of climate change.

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At COP 18, Costa Rica presented examples of initiatives designed to enable agriculture to mitigate and adapt to climate change

With support from IICA, at the world summit on climate change the country showed how the agricultural sector can reduce emissions and make more efficient use of natural resources.

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IICA delivers education strategy for biotechnology to the Costa Rican authorities

The Institute delivered the strategy to the country’s National Technical Commission on Biosafety, made up of the ministries of agriculture, environment, and science and technology, and representatives of other sectors.

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Queso Turrialba: the story of a ‘tasty’ designation of origin

With support from IICA and other organizations, the Costa Rican cheese was granted the first designation of origin to be obtained by a Central American dairy product.

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