The stakeholders agreed that IICA’s contributions should focus on the areas of rural well-being, competitiveness, agribusiness, agricultural health, food safety and climate change.

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Delegation in Guyana under its Flagship Project Family Agriculture has once again demonstrated it support to Bee-keeping in Guyana.  On this occasion the Institute in partnership with the Guyana Livestock Development Authority and the Guyana Apiculture Society executed a three (3) part activity targeting Apiculture in Region 9.  

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Delegation in Guyana in Collaboration with the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (NGMC) continues to provide technical assistance in the form of training of to farmers and agro-processors.

Globally, food and nutrition security are of paramount importance to many countries, Guyana being no exception. One body which is assisting in the fight to maintain food and nutrition security in Guyana is the National Codex Committee(NCC)whose mandate it is to facilitate national discussion on food safety issue and present positions on food safety issues affecting producers and consumers.

This was the theme of the recently concluded Annual General and Network Meetings of the Women Agro-processing Development Network (WADN) which has evolved after several years of agro-process being done mostly from the kitchen of our parents and grandparents and the products sold from small stands near the homesteads or directly from the kitchen door.

The IICA Delegation in Guyana in collaboration with the New Guyana Marketing Corporation for the past few months executed Cost of Production training sessions targeting both farmers and agro processors, so that they can adequately negotiate realistic and competitive prices on the market.