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  • IICA supports tripartite actions by Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the United States to control and eradicate African swine fever in the hemisphere

    Gathered at IICA Headquarters, the countries will seek to advance the coordination of actions focused on cross-border communication, the sharing of information and border controls; as well as public communication plans and coordination and cooperation between laboratories.
  • Manuel Otero; Director General del IICA, y Jaime Castañeda, Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de USDEC.

    U.S. Dairy Export Council and IICA forge closer ties to foster the implementation of scientific standards in the dairy sector of the Americas

    The two institutions have maintained a partnership since 2019 to share best practices for sustainable productivity based on scientific evidence.
  • The Alliance against the “banana pandemic” consolidates its work and sets new priorities with a focus on producers and consumers

    Though its origins are from Asia, TR4 has been spreading westward and in 2019, it was detected in Colombia, setting off alarms in the tropical zones of Latin America and the Caribbean, whose countries are among the largest banana producers and exporters in the world. Later, in 2021, a strain was detected in Northern Peru.
  • IICA launches the Observatory of Public Policies for Agrifood Systems, a space for dialogue and proposals to face times of global uncertainty

    The OPSAa was presented with a high-level dialogue on the changing scenarios in policies and global geopolitics as a result of the war in Europe.
  • Closer relationship between farmers and scientists will favor greater and more sustainable food production, says Argentine biochemist Raquel Chan

    Chan concedió una entrevista al programa Agro América, que emite el canal de TV brasileño AgroMais, luego de haber recibido el título “Cátedra IICA en Biotecnología y Desarrollo Sostenible” por sus contribuciones para el fortalecimiento de los sistemas nacionales de ciencia y tecnología.
  • Countries of the Americas and agrifood companies, together with Rattan Lal and IICA, evaluated the progress and challenges of the Living Soils of the Americas program

    Living Soils of the Americas is a program that seeks to act as a bridge between science and public policies aimed at the restoration and protection of soils in the Americas, whose degradation threatens the position of Latin America and the Caribbean as guarantors of global food security.