The meeting was organized by the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) to discuss the future of agriculture following the UN Food Systems Summit held on 23 September in New York.
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That was the conclusion drawn by senior officials from countries in the Americas and representatives of the private sector, academia and international organizations who took part in the panel discussion “Digitalization of agriculture as a determining factor in the transformation of food systems: a perspective from the Americas,” organized by the IICA as a side event to the Food Systems Summit convened by the UN Secretary General.
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The debate highlighted the strong commitment of the region’s governments and the private sector, in the belief that maintaining soil health is one of the central challenges facing agriculture today and to achieving economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
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The training course begins 23 September, is free of charge and available at the IICA e-learning platform, https://elearning.iica.int/.
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Winners will receive cash prizes for the purchase of inputs and services, scholarships to participate in specialization courses in the area of bioeconomy and the opportunity to be part of a bio-entrepreneurship support network.
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Ambassadors and Representatives to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) underscored the importance of the hemispheric agreement that IICA helped to consolidate regarding food systems and its promotion of agriculture as a driver of post-Covid-19 recovery.
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The Director General of IICA has proposed that the ministers of agriculture of the two continents meet in 2022 to launch a common cooperation agenda
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IICA has published the “Atlas de los biocombustibles líquidos 2020-2021,” an accurate, reliable and detailed information tool on the main biofuel variables.
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The successful experiences in trade and market penetration of organic farmers in Latin America was the topic of the fourth virtual meeting organized by the Inter-American Commission for Organic Agriculture (ICOA), in the framework of the agreement signed in March by IICA.
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