Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

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Agriculture in Costa Rica gains strength and increases technology use in 2021 with IICA support

Costa Rica receives the equivalent of USD 33 in technical cooperation for each dollar it contributes to IICA, revealed Institute authorities at the annual accountability meeting.

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AGRO-INNOVA Project by EU and IICA promotes network between research centers and farmers to strengthen their resilience to climate change

Initiative by the EU and the Institute seeks to improve the climate resilience and food security of at least 3,000 small-scale farmers of basic grains in the Central American Dry Corridor.

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IICA announces the 15 startups offering digital solutions for agriculture in the Americas that will participate in Digital Agriculture Week

The winning companies were selected from a total of 80 Agtechs from 15 different countries, who applied after a call for proposals was issued by IICA for the event to be held this month.

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Gillian Flies, Canadian food producer and regenerative agriculture advocate, named as IICA “Leader of Rurality”

Flies was living in Toronto with her husband, Brent Preston, and their two small children when they decided to move to the countryside to establish a farm to cultivate the type of healthy food that they wanted to give to their children, while also contributing to environmental protection.

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Addressing the Ministers of Agriculture of Ibero-America, Director General of IICA emphasizes the importance of digitization to increase sustainable production and transform agrifood systems

IICA has already launched a hemispheric initiative called Mission ADA (Digital Agriculture in Action) to contribute to the digital transformation of agrifood systems. The initiative focuses on four areas of work, all of which are aimed at cooperating with the countries to foster the dynamic and inclusive digital transformation of agriculture.

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The American continent has the resources to overcome food insecurity, stated IICA Director General at WTO seminar

"The region has the productive resources to tackle the challenge of balancing these apparently contradictory goals; that is, increasing production in light of its role at global level, while properly addressing priorities in climate action, inclusion and the reduction of poverty", said the Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero.

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Agriculture in the Americas is one of the main solutions to mitigate climate change, indicates a study by IICA and C-MASC

The study determined that the region could consolidate itself as a leader in promoting food security and advancing towards sustainability through good practices in land use.

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The agriculture sector of the Americas discusses perspectives on agriculture’s role in global climate action negotiations

More than 20 negotiators from 17 countries in the region participated in a workshop to coordinate perspectives on agriculture’s ability to provide climate change solutions, as part of preparations for COP 27 at the end of this year.

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IICA’s latest “Leader of Rurality” – Trigidia Jiménez, the Bolivian woman who reclaimed an ancestral crop that is strategic to food security

When Trigidia Jiménez began to produce cañahua, it was only for personal consumption in Bolivia, but today it is produced and sold by more than 1,500 families.

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