Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

Manuel Otero; Director General del IICA, y Jaime CastaƱeda, Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de USDEC.

April 6, 2022

U.S. Dairy Export Council and IICA forge closer ties to foster the implementation of scientific standards in the dairy sector of the Americas

The two institutions have maintained a partnership since 2019 to share best practices for sustainable productivity based on scientific evidence.

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March 30, 2022

The Alliance against the ā€œbanana pandemicā€ 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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March 29, 2022

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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March 28, 2022

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

Chan concediĆ³ una entrevista al programa Agro AmĆ©rica, que emite el canal de TV brasileƱo AgroMais, luego de haber recibido el tĆ­tulo ā€œCĆ”tedra IICA en BiotecnologĆ­a y Desarrollo Sostenibleā€ por sus contribuciones para el fortalecimiento de los sistemas nacionales de ciencia y tecnologĆ­a.

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March 25, 2022

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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March 23, 2022

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, ā€œThe geopolitical importance of the agriculture sector for energy security,ā€ published recently by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

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March 22, 2022

ā€œBirds and Forests – Biodiversity of the Americas,ā€ 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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March 18, 2022

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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March 17, 2022

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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