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May 21, 2021

Digital agriculture: a vital tool for farmers’ development and inclusion, and for strengthening food systems

Digital technologies are making a significant contribution to higher agricultural yields, sustainable development, the establishment of supply chain links, and irrigation, traceability and certification.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 20, 2021

Registration now open for the course on international trade and agriculture for the SICA region

Designed to promote agricultural trade, the course is part of the actions of IICA’s International Trade and Regional Integration Program, working in collaboration with the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA), FAO, and the Executive Secretariat of the Central American Agricultural Council (SECAC).

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 17, 2021

Bayer online course on the IICA platform will help prevent the disease that is threatening banana production

The course is free and available on the IICA training platform (https://elearning.iica.int/). It provides important information about Fusarium, its historical, social, and economic consequences, its rate of propagation, and how it could affect global food security.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 14, 2021

“To continue teaching other farmers how to boost production and to fight coffee leaf rust is one of the legacies of PROCAGICA”

“My greatest satisfaction is knowing that I can use what PROCAGICA taught me to help others”, says Honduran coffee farmer, Eustasio Nicolás Aguilar.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 13, 2021

Guyana seeks Brazilian support to spur agricultural leadership in the Caribbean

Tereza Cristina, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil, and Zulfikar Mustapha, Minister of Agriculture of Guyana, met to set in motion an extensive cooperation agenda. Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, also took part in the meeting.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 12, 2021

Cooperatives are pivotal to food system sustainability

IICA has launched a series of virtual dialogues to ensure that the agriculture sector of the Americas will have a strong voice at the UN Food Systems Summit 2021.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 11, 2021

One hundred representatives of the public and private sectors in the Caribbean received training on nutrition labelling.

The training was imparted in a virtual seminar organized by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA), and IICA.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 7, 2021

IICA and its partners will launch a new virtual business round for agrifood businesses with a view to strengthening intra-regional trade

Registration for the event, to be held between May 24 and 28, is already open.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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May 6, 2021

Andean Ministers of Agriculture back Global Alliance against banana disease and call for increased joint international actions

IICA is the coordinator of the Secretariat of the Alliance’s Executive Committee, whose mission is to support the banana industry in the fight against the destructive Fusarium TR4 fungus, by developing knowledge, technology, and a definitive scientific solution to the disease.

Tiempo de lectura: 3mins

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