Manuel Otero participated in the inauguration of the Regional Water Dialogues in Latin America and the Caribbean, along with Chile’s Minister of the Environment, the Secretary General of ECLAC, the FAO Regional Representative and prominent international researchers.
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Otero met in Brasilia with the new ministers of Agriculture; Agrarian Development; Social Development; Finance; Science and Technology; and Integration and Regional Development, as well as with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Deputy Minister of the Environment. In all of these discussions, he laid the foundation for increased collaboration between the specialized organization for agricultural and rural development and the new government of Brazil.
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Carbon sequestration in pastures and carbon footprint measurement; reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; as well as soil health care were some of the issues that Otero discussed with Secretary Juan José Bahillo.
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Nassau, The Bahamas.
January 24, 2023
Recently, BDB has been meeting with IICA to discuss opportunities for financing agri-tourism, climate resilience, and Family Island development, and this MOU is the result of those meetings.
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Under the act, national agricultural production is declared to be a State priority, given the key role it plays in ensuring the country’s social, political and economic stability, and people’s right to adequate food.
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The legislation was drafted following a process of analysis and participatory dialogue with all the sector’s public and private stakeholders. The process took more than two years to complete, with the IICA playing an important role.
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University students from the U.S. are attending a seminar organized by Future Farmers of America (FFA) that includes visits to agricultural production areas in the Central American country.
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The training program included three modules: digital agriculture, agricultural resilience and entrepreneurship. The participants were students from ten professional technical schools and from the local livestock association – Cámara de Ganaderos Unidos del Caribe.
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The commitment was made during a high-level meeting aimed at strengthening integration, organized by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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