November 23, 2023
The meeting provided an opportunity to review the achievements and coordinate future actions of the Living Soils of the Americas initiative, which acts as a bridge between science, public policies, the private sector and efforts to restore soils in the hemisphere, whose degradation threatens the position of Latin America and the Caribbean as a guarantor of global food security.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
November 22, 2023
The pavilion at COP28 is a joint effort between IICA and its partners, aimed at generating new international partnerships to fund, accelerate or scale up the implementation of contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
November 21, 2023
The webpage, available at https://agroyaccionclimatica.iica.int/en/, illustrates the strategic role of the region’s agriculture sector in tackling climate change. It also presents the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas - the pavilion that IICA and its partners will host at COP28 in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to build public awareness about and highlight the role of the agrifood systems of the Americas in driving the development of climate solutions.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
November 20, 2023
Since 2019, the GeoFem: Women in Geospatial Technologies (Rally Femenino) workshops organized by IICA and its international partners have provided empowerment and training in innovation technology for more than 500 women. The most recent workshop was co-organized with SERVIR – a joint NASA and USAID initiative.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
November 16, 2023
The initiatives will be launched within the framework of scientific-technological cooperation between MinCyT and IICA. They will address various topics, namely the development of biomaterials, waste biorefineries, bioenergy, bioinputs and bioenterprises.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
November 16, 2023
Youngsters from the Colegio Agropecuario de San Carlos have won the competition, which was aimed at Costa Rican high school students. More than 100 youth from across the country participated.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
November 14, 2023
Castañeda visited the headquarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture in Costa Rica, where he was interviewed by AgroAmerica, a program broadcast on Brazil’s Agro+ television channel.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
November 10, 2023
Authorities from the Hemisphere’s agriculture sector and experts from international organizations met at the Headquarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), in Costa Rica, to identify and analyze public policies to strengthen the agrifood systems of the Americas.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San José, Costa Rica
November 10, 2023
The Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and Climate Focus, are pleased to launch a comprehensive policy brief aimed to help policymakers in the Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC) understand how high integrity voluntary carbon markets can support climate action and resilience in the region’s food production systems.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
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