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The Alliance against the “banana pandemic” consolidates its work and sets new priorities with a focus on producers and consumers

Though its origins are from Asia, TR4 has been spreading westward and in 2019, it was detected in Colombia, setting off alarms in the tropical zones of Latin America and the Caribbean, whose countries are among the largest banana producers and exporters in the world. Later, in 2021, a strain was detected in Northern Peru.

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IICA launches the Observatory of Public Policies for Agrifood Systems, a space for dialogue and proposals to face times of global uncertainty

The OPSAa was presented with a high-level dialogue on the changing scenarios in policies and global geopolitics as a result of the war in Europe.

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Closer relationship between farmers and scientists will favor greater and more sustainable food production, says Argentine biochemist Raquel Chan

Chan concedió una entrevista al programa Agro América, que emite el canal de TV brasileño AgroMais, luego de haber recibido el título “Cátedra IICA en Biotecnología y Desarrollo Sostenible” por sus contribuciones para el fortalecimiento de los sistemas nacionales de ciencia y tecnología.

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Countries of the Americas and agrifood companies, together with Rattan Lal and IICA, evaluated the progress and challenges of the Living Soils of the Americas program

Living Soils of the Americas is a program that seeks to act as a bridge between science and public policies aimed at the restoration and protection of soils in the Americas, whose degradation threatens the position of Latin America and the Caribbean as guarantors of global food security.

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The agricultural sector in the Americas can make a key contribution to global energy security, under threat due to the conflict in Eastern Europe

This is one of the points made in the document, “The geopolitical importance of the agriculture sector for energy security,” published recently by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

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“Birds and Forests – Biodiversity of the Americas,” the new exhibition launched at AgroArt, IICA’s Virtual Art Museum

Photographic exhibition highlights the beauty of migratory and endemic birds and their importance for the well-being of the planet.

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The province of Jujuy, the Embassy of Costa Rica in Argentina and IICA advance work on shared projects for climate change mitigation and adaptation

A meeting to coordinate the shared work took place during a visit of the Ambassador of Costa Rica to Argentina, Ginette Campos Rojas, in the northern province of Jujuy, accompanied by representatives of IICA in Argentina.

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EU and IICA AGRO-INNOVA project promotes climate resilience and crop diversification for smallholder farmers in the Central American Dry Corridor

With the support of strategic partnerships with 31 partners, including institutions, private stakeholders and leading farmer organizations in the region, the project is present in fifteen territories in the Dry Corridor, made up of 34 towns or municipalities, where assistance has been provided to almost 750 hectares of micro and small farms.

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Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas appeal for regional coordination and unity to reinforce food security in light of the impact of the war in Ukraine; Africa fears food shortages

The meeting organized by Brazil, in which various ministers of Agriculture of the Americas participated, took place in the context of the crisis triggered by the conflict in Eastern Europe, which has affected the market of raw materials, especially wheat, energy and fertilizers, all key inputs for food production. A renewed space of cooperation for countries in the region was proposed, with the participation of organizations such as IICA.

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