December 14, 2023
IICA, with the support of the Embassies of Costa Rica, Brazil and Peru, presented its new AgroArt exhibition at a cultural event in Buenos Aires, celebrating the arts and cultural diversity. The exhibition fuses cinema and literature with rural life.
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December 13, 2023
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI), the Argentine Association of No-till Farmers (AAPRESID), the Group of Producing Countries from the Southern Cone (GPS), the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University (MSU), Gold Standard, Rabobank's ACORN and Climate Focus will join forces in 2024 to support the access of the agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean to financing of voluntary and compliance carbon markets.
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December 13, 2023
The 68-year-old Vilella was a Professor in the Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires for 48 years, also serving as Dean and occupying several other positions. He used these roles to champion the potential of the bioeconomy for production development.
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December 12, 2023
At the event, details were given of the progress of the Living Soils Initiative in the Americas, carried out by IICA together with the scientist Rattan Lal, considered the world's leading authority on the subject and one of the speakers at this event.
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December 12, 2023
In many areas of South America, flooding can be taking place in one region at the same time that droughts are affecting another. Some production ecosystems could of course benefit from an adequate water supply following long periods of scanty rainfall.
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December 12, 2023
The institution, which has members in Canada and Mexico, as well as the United States, has been working assiduously to develop greenhouse gas inventories and other tools to provide precise and verifiable information about the environmental footprint of meat production and industry. In this way it is demonstrating its commitment to the climate change mitigation and adaptation goals assumed by the international community under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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December 11, 2023
During a panel organized by the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) of the United States, Bayer and IICA, Vilsack capitalized on the presence of the other ministers of Agriculture of the Americas to underscore the importance of the region for the planet’s food and nutrition security.
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December 11, 2023
As they did at the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021 and at COP27, held in Egypt in 2022, the ministers of Agriculture, alongside IICA, presented a united position to guarantee global food security and defend common interests.
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December 10, 2023
The Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock of Honduras, Laura Suazo, had a very active participation in the 28th edition of the COP, the largest climate negotiation forum in the world organized annually by the UN, where she brought the voice and demands of Central America and the Caribbean to facilitate and accelerate access to funds to finance faster adaptation of farmers to the new scenarios caused by climate change.
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