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Agribusiness leaders from Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru discuss opportunities and endorse the creation of a subregional Forum of Agriculture Ministers
At the invitation of IICA, business leaders from Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru met in Bogotá to promote joint efforts to exploit trade opportunities. They also backed the creation of a Forum of Ministers of Agriculture of the Pacific Region, as a potentially valuable mechanism for boosting trade.
IICA’s Director General addresses the CAS and signs an agreement with Chile to contribute to the development of the Araucanía region
The Ministers of Agriculture of the Southern Agricultural Council (CAS) member countries endorsed the convening of a meeting of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA) in October. IICA committed to support the efforts of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay in the area of associativity and to assist in the production and territorial development of Chile’s Araucanía region.
Central American and Caribbean coffee institutes search for joint solutions to the sector’s critical situation
According to data by PROMECAFE, the regional integration mechanism for the coffee sector, 25% of Arabica coffee consumed worldwide is produced in Central America, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.
Costa Rica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide training to diplomats via IICA’s online courses
Sustainable development and coffee production will be the first IICA courses that will be made available to diplomats from this Central American country.
IICA acquires access to an extensive bibliography on agriculture
The platform provides access to academic periodicals and other resources dealing with a range of subjects in science and the humanities.
Resilient food production projects are now underway
IICA is participating in two projects—funded by the Resilient Food Production Component of the EU’s EUROCLIMA+ Program—which seek to enhance the resilience of agriculture to climate change in various Latin American countries.