December 7, 2023
The presentation was made jointly by IICA and the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC), which promotes the development in harmony with the environment of the region’s indigenous peoples, communities and organizations.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
December 6, 2023
The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Sustainable Production and Irrigation (SEAPI) of the state of Rio Grande do Sul; the state’s public authority for the rice industry (IRGA) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) presented a project to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), aimed at funding research and activities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on rice plantations in Southern Brazil.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
December 6, 2023
The framework agreement of understanding, signed by WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and IICA Deputy Director General Lloyd Day, representing the Institute's Director General, Manuel Otero, aims to contribute to achieving a fairer agricultural system while addressing new challenges affecting trade and markets in food and agriculture, including food security, environmental sustainability and innovation.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
December 5, 2023
The event served as a sounding board for producers in the hemisphere who apply good practices that generate valuable benefits, for both themselves and consumers.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
December 5, 2023
Given Latin America’s huge sustainable agricultural production and high levels of agroindustrial development, the region’s biofuels are a much more effective resource than electromobility for achieving the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
December 4, 2023
Representing the Government of Brazil, Secretary Renata Miranda participated in the launch of the document at the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas pavilion, which IICA installed at COP28 as a way to visibilize the efforts that regional agriculture carries out for the mitigation of and adaptation to global warming.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
December 4, 2023
At COP28, the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is being held in the United Arab Emirates, experts from international organizations agreed that Latin America and the Caribbean has enormous potential to meet the demand for food for a burgeoning world population, while at the same time reducing the environmental impact of agricultural activities.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
December 3, 2023
The study, reflected in the document “Cattle farming and climate change in the Americas: in search of net zero emissions”, written by Argentine scientist Ernesto Viglizzo, warns that publications that hold cattle farming accountable for a significant part of climate change are wrong, as they incorrectly attribute emissions that come from other sectors of the economy, such as industrial, transportation, residential, distribution or domestic consumption, to this activity.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
November 30, 2023
In the city of Manaus, Brazil, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) delivered a presentation on its International Cooperation Initiative and Partnership for the Sustainability of The Amazon to governors and high-level authorities of the region, including its secretaries of Agriculture.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
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