Approximately 2,000 persons attended the event, including producers, researchers and various stakeholders from the agrifood value chain.
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The event sought to promote family farming and climate-resilient production in the Americas, stressing that progress in achieving zero hunger will depend on placing the focus on family farmers, who are the sector most vulnerable to climate change.
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During the panel discussion on “Agrifood Digitization: Initiatives and public policies in countries in the Americas,” which took place during the second edition of Digital Agriculture Week, representatives of various governments gave details of the programs they are implementing across the continent.
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Digital Agriculture Week is a discussion forum, but even more so a forum for collective action, aiming to spur dynamic and inclusive agrifood digitalization. It is part of a series of activities on priority areas in agrifood system transformation, which IICA is promoting to create a hemispheric partnership for food security and sustainable development.
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The increase in heat waves, drought and flooding has already surpassed the tolerance thresholds of many species and these phenomena may be simultaneous, creating cascading effects that are increasingly difficult to control. These situations are exposing countries in the Americas to food and water insecurity.
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IICA, the EU, IDB, FAO, FONTAGRO and AGRO-INNOVA organized a forum in Panama to discuss opportunities for bioinput use in agriculture in the Americas and to identify possible areas for joint collaboration.
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The winning companies were chosen from a field of 70 applicants. The event will adopt a hybrid—in-person and virtual—format.
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Among SENASA’s objectives in aiming to streamline its services are a focus on capacity development, horizontal management, and most of all, determining how to address the changing nature of pests and diseases affecting the agrifood industry, using a One Health approach.
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Discussions in this neutral and independent space will also seek to improve the technical quality and relevance of research on agrifood trade in the Americas and strengthen capacities to provide technical guidance and policy recommendations to governments and the private sector.
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