Investment consultancy firm, VAMS, and IICA partner to promote sustainable agriculture and technological innovation in the Americas

San Jose, 25 June 2021 (IICA). The investment consultancy firm Vista Alta Management Solutions (VAMS) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) formalized an alliance to expand the contribution of agriculture to the sustainable development of the Americas, improve international and regional trade and increase the resilience of the region’s rural areas and agrifood systems to extreme events.

The agreement was signed by Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, and Francisco Guia, President of VAMS, for an initial period of two years.

Vista Alta Management Solutions has ample experience in the North and Latin American markets and is made up by a group of leaders with expertise in a number of different sectors in the region, including financial services, agriculture, electricity, construction, consumer goods and technology, among others.

The company offers a platform with “impact investment” options that seek competitive financial yields in businesses that work to solve the challenges facing Latin America.

“IICA strongly believes in strategic partnerships, especially those that generate an impact that, directly or indirectly, helps to transform reality. We are convinced that agriculture and rurality hold part of the future of our people, in a hemisphere that is called on to be the guarantor of food and nutritional security and the environmental sustainability of our planet”, stated Otero.

“We are experienced in this area and we share an ambitious vision; we are committed to the same sense of collaboration. If we generate prosperity in rural areas, we help to solve issues of food security and nutrition, and improve education, the environment and physical safety in the region. We need to bring socioeconomic development to these disadvantaged areas”, expressed Guia.

Both the Director General of IICA and the Prresident of VAMS predict that this partnership is just the beginning of a productive relationship in benefit of agriculture in the hemisphere, putting words into action and building a shared path forward.

Within the framework of the alliance, the entities will evaluate projects aimed at sustainable agriculture that include concepts such as efficiency through technological innovation, proper water management, agrifood development, job creation, clean energy management and, in general, elements that work together to mitigate climate change.

Other priority action areas include technological innovation in agriculture, food and nutritional security, climate change and natural resource management, productivity and competitiveness of the agrifood sector and job creation aimed at women and youth.

To complement the signing of the agreement, the Director General of IICA took the representatives of VAMS on virtual tour of the Interpretive Center for Tomorrow’s Agriculture (CIMAG) and the Fab-Lab for agricultural innovation, which are both initiatives of IICA that seek to attract new generations to agriculture and capitalize on new technologies to advance the digitalization of agriculture in the Americas.

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