San José, Costa Rica
October 23, 2025
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) has unveiled the updated version of a key tool designed to modernize and strengthen agricultural health and food safety services across the Americas—an initiative aimed at safeguarding the region’s sanitary and phytosanitary status, ensuring safe food trade, protecting public health, preventing economic losses and driving rural development.
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Kingstown
October 23, 2025
Nioka is dedicated to the production of bananas, cassava, sweet potato, yam and vegetables. She has also chaired the WALCO cooperative (Women in Agriculture Langley Park Cooperative), where women producers support each other and welcome visits from students to bring young people closer to farming.
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San José, Costa Rica
October 22, 2025
In a hybrid ceremony, the memorandum was signed by Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, and Ernest Allen, President of ISTA
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Brasilia
October 21, 2025
IICA has invited four Leaders of Rurality of the Americas from different regions of the continent to share, in person, the realities of their rural communities with the ministers.
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San José, Costa Rica
October 20, 2025
The CEIAC is an initiative comprised of universities, research centers and international organizations in five countries, with technical support from IICA and ceiA3. Its mission is to strengthen regional agrifood training, research and innovation through academic, scientific and technical cooperation.
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Montevideo
October 20, 2025
PROCISUR supports more than 2,100 research projects and 200 germplasm banks across the entire region.
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Brasilia, Brasil
October 17, 2025
Macarena Valdés and Marco Aceituno, creators of a farm where food production has flourished despite the severe drought that has afflicted Chile in recent years, will be among the speakers at the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2025, to be held from November 3 to 5 in Brasília.
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Lima, Perú
October 17, 2025
Eddie is President of the Gold Coffee Perú association of agricultural producers – a group of 600 coffee farmers from Cajamarca and Amazonas. In his work, Abarca has managed to consolidate a model combining quality, sustainability and social development.
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San Jose, Costa Rica
October 16, 2025
Otero stated that IICA stands ready to assist the World Bank in helping small-scale farmers to increase their productivity, scale up and connect to value chains that can increase their income. To that end, IICA will tap into its broad experience in the region, where it works together with various strategic partners from the public and private sectors.
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