The Ministers of Agriculture of 14 nations in that region—who along with their other counterparts in the Americas, were attending the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2021—committed to transforming and increasing the resilience of their agrifood systems to the challenges they face, due to their vulnerability to climate change-related natural disasters.
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) presented the report entitled “The Outlook for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Americas: A Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean”.
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The Green Climate Fund foresees that the partnership with IICA will increase the financial resources available for mitigation, adaptation and resilience initiatives in the region, which, to date, has amounted to USD 1.85 billion in 41 climate projects.
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The Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, Tom Vilsack, addressed his peers at the Ministerial Conference organized by IICA. He warned of the devastating impacts of climate change and called for ending hunger, stating that “agriculture must and can be part of the solution”.
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In the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2021, an event organized by IICA, the Dominican Republic and Haiti reported on the actions taken to fight the disease, which is threatening the Hemisphere’s swine industry. So far, it has only been detected on Dominican farms.
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The agreement will work to increase the contributions of the agriculture sector to the economic growth and sustainable development of the countries of Africa and the Americas, strengthen the well-being of rural populations, drive international and regional trade, and increase the resilience of agri-food systems to extreme climate events.
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Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General made these remarks at the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas, which is taking place in conjunction with the meeting of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA), IICA’s highest governing body, under this year’s theme: “Sustainable Agri-food Systems, the Engine of Development of the Americas”.
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The veterinarian, who is an expert in sustainable development issues, will lead the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) for an additional term, from 2022 to 2026. The Ministers and Secretaries of Agriculture of the Americas elected Otero by acclamation.
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CIMAG is one of the flagship projects of an IICA of open doors and includes innovations from companies like Bayer and Microsoft in a bid to demonstrate the benefits that cutting-edge technologies have for agriculture.
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