Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

Visita Vice CR

August 4, 2022

Costa Rica’s Vice-President visits IICA and encourages collaborative efforts in organic agriculture and distribution channels to improve agriculture sector profitability

IICA Director General, Manuel Otero, welcomed Costa Rica’s Vice-President, Stephan Brunner Neibig, and outlined the extent of IICA’s cooperation programs and its “IICA of Open Doors initiatives.

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Belize

August 4, 2022

Belizean Food Basket

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Poster for Belizean Food Basket

Belize

August 4, 2022

Belizean Food Basket

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July 29, 2022

Africa-Americas Ministerial Summit calls for the creation of permanent mechanisms for integration and collaboration between the two continents to improve their agri-food systems

The States tasked three organizations the IICA, AGRA and AUDA-NEPAD with preparing a roadmap and developing a common agenda for that purpose.

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July 20, 2022

Countries of the Americas ask IICA to increase support for the design of public policies to foster and develop innovation, science and technology

The decision was reached through a resolution adopted at the IICA Executive Committee meeting, where Member State representatives heard a presentation by the Argentine scientist Raquel Chan on the importance of science, technology and innovation in agriculture.

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July 12, 2022

Cooperative member Chito Quintero, a role model for peasant and indigenous communities in Panama, recognized by IICA as a “Leader of Rurality”

Quintero, who forms part of the Ngäbe-Buglé indigenous community, lost his mother at the age of 6 and had to work from an early age to support his siblings. He became a union leader shortly after becoming a banana farmer, and in 1991, he co-founded the banana cooperative Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Bananera del Atlántico (COOBANA), which currently has 220 members and more than 600 workers.

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July 8, 2022

Food, energy and fertilizer crisis affords an opportunity for Latin America to accelerate the development of the bioeconomy, says IICA at important global forum

The region’s wealth of natural resources, new global demands for more sustainable production, and changes in the global geopolitical landscape represent a convergence of factors conducive to a more rapid transition towards a bio-based model.

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July 7, 2022

Female Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas advise that food security will only be possible with greater female participation in scientific research

At the II Forum of Female Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Agriculture and Other High-level Officials of the areas of agriculture, science and technology of the countries of the Americas, organized by IICA in collaboration with the government of Honduras, political authorities and prestigious scientists from across the hemisphere staged a high-level debate on “The new frontier of knowledge and the importance of the role of women in science”.

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June 29, 2022

IICA recognizes Brazilian Francisca Neri as a “Leader of Rurality” for inspiring young people and helping to revolutionize sheep and goat farming in a municipality in northeast Brazil

The daughter of rural farmers from Betânia, a municipality in the state of Piauí, Francisca is now 25 and is Secretary of Family Farming, a position from which she promotes associativism and cooperativism to improve income and quality of life for small-sized farmers.

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