At the upcoming COP27, Rattan Lal and the Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero, will spearhead the Institute’s support for the efforts of the countries of the Americas to ensure that agriculture’s voice is heard loud and clear on the global stage of the climate discussions.
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Otero was awarded the title in recognition of his work to foster sustainable agriculture and rural development in the Americas, collective action among countries of the region, the digitization of agriculture, tropical agriculture and the improved positioning of the agriculture sector.
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470 companies from Latin America and the Caribbean participated in the event’s most recent edition, which has become a business meeting space for regional SMEs.
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The initiative will work with around 40 projects from countries in the Central American Integration System (SICA), of which the 5 proposals with the greatest potential to become biobusinesses will be selected and receive a prize.
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At the UN climate summit, the agriculture sector of the Americas aims to ratify its key role as a guarantor of global food and environmental security.
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The page (available at https://cop27.iica.int/en) offers detailed information about the strategic role of the region’s agriculture sector in tackling climate change, and the contribution it will make to the upcoming event, as the eyes of the world turn to Sharm El Sheikh.
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Archive gathers information on national and multilateral regulations related to the poultry industry, to strengthen exports from the countries of the Americas
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Implementation of the initiative will get under way in the first quarter of 2023, and take a year and a half to complete.
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In June of this year, IICA launched a topical, dynamic program on a new platform designed to appeal to new audiences. A number of podcast episodes have now been produced focusing, in particular, on the Living Soils of the Americas initiative promoted by IICA and the Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration (C-MASC), which is headed by renowned scientist Rattan Lal, considered the world's foremost authority on soil science.
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