Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

El Presidente chileno, Gabriel Boric, durante la X Semana de la Energía que transcurrió en Santiago.

Santiago

October 23, 2025

IICA and the CPBIO highlight the strategic role of agriculture and biofuels at the Tenth Energy Week in Chile

Organized by the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), the participants in the event included His Excellency the President of Chile, Gabriel Boric. The discussions focused on the technical, economic and regulatory challenges involved in accelerating the decarbonization of transportation in the Americas, especially in the aviation sector.

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Diapositiva con el título ‘Conclusiones clave’ a la izquierda y cuatro mensajes en recuadros de colores: ‘SAIA moderno = sistema agroalimentario resiliente’, ‘Cooperación público-privada es clave’, ‘Tecnología transforma la gestión sanitaria’ e ‘Invertir hoy asegura el futuro’. A la derecha, dos personas en traje formal sentadas en entornos profesionales.

San José, Costa Rica

October 23, 2025

IICA presents the updated PVS, a key tool to strengthen countries’ agricultural health services and ensure safe food trade

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) has unveiled the updated version of a key tool designed to modernize and strengthen agricultural health and food safety services across the Americas—an initiative aimed at safeguarding the region’s sanitary and phytosanitary status, ensuring safe food trade, protecting public health, preventing economic losses and driving rural development.

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Kingstown

October 23, 2025

Nioka Abbott-Balcombe, a banana producer from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines who empowers rural women and shares her wisdom, is recognized by IICA as a Leader of Rurality of the Americas

Nioka is dedicated to the production of bananas, cassava, sweet potato, yam and vegetables. She has also chaired the WALCO cooperative (Women in Agriculture Langley Park Cooperative), where women producers support each other and welcome visits from students to bring young people closer to farming.

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San José, Costa Rica

October 22, 2025

The International Seed Testing Association and IICA will strengthen the seed industry’s  quality and certification laboratories in the Americas

In a hybrid ceremony, the memorandum was signed by Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, and Ernest Allen, President of ISTA

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Duhaje Jennings, apicultor jamaiquino, tiene gran expectativa sobre su participación en la conferencia y uno de los temas que, según anticipa, quisiera plantear a los ministros, es la necesidad de que se impulse la inclusión de los temas agropecuarios en los planes de estudio de las escuelas.

Brasilia

October 21, 2025

Jamaican beekeeper Duhaje Jennings will share insights on the challenges and opportunities of producing in the Caribbean at the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas in Brazil

IICA has invited four Leaders of Rurality of the Americas from different regions of the continent to share, in person, the realities of their rural communities with the ministers.

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San José, Costa Rica

October 20, 2025

Academic sector and IICA agree to establish a consortium to strengthen agrifood research, education and innovation in Central America

The CEIAC is an initiative comprised of universities, research centers and international organizations in five countries, with technical support from IICA and ceiA3. Its mission is to strengthen regional agrifood training, research and innovation through academic, scientific and technical cooperation.

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Montevideo

October 20, 2025

PROCISUR marks 45 years driving scientific and technological integration in the Southern Cone

PROCISUR supports more than 2,100 research projects and 200 germplasm banks across the entire region.

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Brasilia, Brasil

October 17, 2025

Macarena Valdés and Marco Aceituno, small-scale Chilean producers who have thrived under challenging conditions, will take part in the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas in Brasília

Macarena Valdés and Marco Aceituno, creators of a farm where food production has flourished despite the severe drought that has afflicted Chile in recent years, will be among the speakers at the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2025, to be held from November 3 to 5 in Brasília.

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Lima, Perú

October 17, 2025

Eddie Abarca López, a Peruvian coffee farmer and manager who is banking on coffee to improve the quality of life in his community, has been named an IICA Leader of Rurality of the Americas 

Eddie is President of the Gold Coffee Perú association of agricultural producers – a group of 600 coffee farmers from Cajamarca and Amazonas. In his work, Abarca has managed to consolidate a model combining quality, sustainability and social development.

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