The Committee is expected to endorse the choice of water use in agriculture as the theme of the meeting of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture scheduled to be held in September this year.
Mexico City, May 22, 2013 (IICA). During meetings with senior agriculture and social development officials in Mexico, Víctor M. Villalobos, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), announced that his organization’s Executive Committee would be meeting in Mexico City from June 17-18.
Ministers of agriculture of 12 IICA member countries will be taking part in the Thirty-third Regular Meeting of the Executive Committee, with the discussion and analysis of the issue of water for agriculture high on the agenda.
In Mexico, Villalobos observed that water was an issue of key importance to agricultural development, since the agricultural sector accounted for 75% of water use worldwide. IICA was promoting discussion of the issue of water–particularly management of the resource–as part of its hemispheric mandate, he remarked.
He also announced that the Inter-American Board of Agriculture, IICA’s highest governing body, would be meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September. The board is comprised of the ministers or secretaries of agriculture of the Institute’s 34 member countries.
The body would have the task of approving IICA’s work plans and electing the Director General for the period 2014-2018.
Mr. Villalobos pointed out that his term of office would conclude in January 2014 and that the Government of Mexico had endorsed his candidacy for another four-year term.
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victor.delangel@iica.int
