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  • Ministers of Agriculture of MERCOSUR, CHILE, BOLIVIA and PERU establish standards to guarantee transportation of food supplies

    The online meeting was convened at the request of Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Tereza Cristina (center), who was accompanied by representatives from her country’s Ministries of Infrastructure and Foreign Affairs.
  • Small-scale producers in Central America build solar dryers to preserve and improve coffee quality

    35 leading producers in Central America have installed these technological models, thus improving the processing of their coffee for the 2019-2020 harvest season, enhancing the quality of the bean, and in turn boosting their income through better sale prices, the total capacity of the dryer is between 14 and 15 quintales.
  • IICA donates safety equipment to the Mirabeau Abattoir in Grenada

    2020 will be the year where a Livestock Strategy will be developed for the Livestock Sector in Grenada
  • A new photographic exhibition on rural women, The Soul of Rurality, opens in Canada

    As a result of the partnership between IICA and Vogue, the photographs exhibited in Ottawa depict the essential role played by women in agriculture throughout the Americas.
  • IICA and CIRAD renew agreement to drive the bioeconomy and agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The organizations have a long history of joint work, which includes the PROMECAFÉ and PROCAGICA programs that support coffee farming in Central America.
  • IICA and the Bioversity International-CIAT Alliance provided training in gene editing to researchers in Central America and the Andean region

    The course covered technical foundations, genome editing applications and regulatory developments.