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  • Antimicrobial Resistance: an emerging issue for the livestock sector and food safety services

    Six South American countries prepare a regional strategy and national surveillance plans to prevent and control antimicrobial resistance in food animals.

  • Differentiated public policies are key to strengthening family farming in Latin America and the Caribbean

    At a forum organized by IICA, specialists agreed on the need to make this social category a priority on public agendas in order to devise a legal framework that will strengthen it.

  • IICA specialists and members of Costa Rica’s CLIITAs receive training in how to reduce food losses

    Experts from the Institute and other organizations were taught how to use and apply a methodology that helps reduce postharvest losses in agricultural crops.

  • G20 will tackle obstacles to the achievement of global food security

    In June, the leaders of the G20 will discuss the recommendations made by the Vice-Ministers of Agriculture and other entities such as IICA for strengthening the agricultural sector and increasing its contribution to food production worldwide.

  • Countries call for improved efforts to transfer technologies for the adaptation of climate change to small-scale producers

    IICA report summarizes the arguments put forward by several countries in the Americas supporting the creation of an international working group on climate change and agriculture.

  • Carbon neutrality can make agribusinesses more competitive

    Officials from across Latin America learned about the WTO’s provisions on environment, with a view to promoting policies designed to make agriculture more competitive and sustainable.