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Costa Rican high school students, creators of a module for the promotion and dissemination of silvopastoral goat farming, recognized by IICA as Leaders of Rurality of the Americas
This initiative promotes agricultural education and training among young people and producers in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, selling goat milk-based products in their communities.AECID and IICA launch project to promote renewable energies and energy efficiency in rural areas of Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Guatemala
Implementation of the initiative will get under way in the first quarter of 2023, and take a year and a half to complete.AGRO-INNOVA Project by EU and IICA promotes network between research centers and farmers to strengthen their resilience to climate change
Initiative by the EU and the Institute seeks to improve the climate resilience and food security of at least 3,000 small-scale farmers of basic grains in the Central American Dry Corridor.Costa Rica inaugurates molecular biology lab to fight coffee rust and work to develop new bean varieties
The laboratory was inaugurated at the Coffee Institute of Costa Rica (ICAFE) in a joint initiative between the European Union, IICA, CATIE and PROMECAFE. It will serve the coffee industry in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean.IICA and FAO define joint agenda that calls for dialogue between the ministers of Agriculture and the Environment of Central America and the Dominican Republic
The organizations also proposed actions to prevent Fusarium Tropical Race 4 and a swine fever outbreak on the continent.Research studies aimed at resolving challenges faced by Latin American and Caribbean coffee farmers were presented in Guatemala
PROMECAFE, an initiative supported by IICA, held a symposium with 330 participants from 14 countries across the region, which is home to more than one million coffee-farming families.