San Cristóbal y Nieves
September 30, 2025
The Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, highlighted the significant progress made in recent years by Caribbean agriculture toward greater productivity and resilience, and underscored the Institute’s ongoing commitment to supporting those achievements through its technical cooperation work.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San José, Costa Rica
September 29, 2025
With a view to strengthening food security and promoting sustainability and transparency in the agricultural supply chain, a group of technology leaders from academia, government, and the private sector explained why the digitalization of the agrifood sector is urgently needed to revolutionize traceability, from production through to final consumption.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San José, Costa Rica
September 26, 2025
During the 2025 Digital Agriculture Week, organized in Costa Rica by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), more than 21 agtech companies took part in a strategic dialogue with investment funds specializing in agrotechnology. These funds presented their financing models and shared experiences on how to scale digital solutions in agriculture across the region.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San José, Costa Rica
September 26, 2025
Bayer, the Chilean startup Farmtastica, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) inaugurated the AgroBox 360 controlled-environment vertical farm in Costa Rica, showcasing the advantages of using digital and low-cost technologies for sustainable food production.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San José, Costa Rica
September 25, 2025
At Digital Agriculture Week, which is being held at the Headquarters of the IICA, public and private sector stakeholders examined how artificial intelligence and other advances are transforming the generation of climate information, and explored ways of improving farmers’ access to it.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San José, Costa Rica
September 24, 2025
The key stakeholders in the digital transformation of agriculture in the Americas have underscored the need to tap the potential of new technologies to improve the quality of life of rural dwellers, at the start of the main regional forum where stakeholders come together to discuss the subject.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San José, Costa Rica
September 24, 2025
At the GeoRiego 2025 Hackathon, held at IICA’s headquarters in San José, Costa Rica, more than 19 teams participated, presenting technological solutions for water management in agriculture.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San José, Costa Rica
September 22, 2025
Gessyane serves as Technical Coordinator of the Energia das Mulheres da Terra project, which brings together 42 women farmers’ organizations and strengthens family farming by promoting sustainable agroecological practices and agricultural innovation.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Buenos Aires, Argentina
September 22, 2025
Agriculture is essential for global peace and plays a crucial role in stability at a time when the rules that have governed the international order in recent decades are undergoing a profound transformation, said Manuel Otero, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), at one of Argentina’s most important agricultural events.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
