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  • Costa Rica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs launches internal mobile application and fully enters digital diplomacy with the support of IICA

    The “Integrated Bilateral and Institutional Cooperation Information System (SIIBCI)” was designed with the support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
  • Council of the Americas and IICA: Achieving sustainable food production will hinge on improving the situation in rural communities

    Experts discussed how food will be produced and consumed in the future and the situation of rural communities in the Americas
  • Smallholder farmers are the key players in food security, stated the Minister of Agriculture of Guyana, Zulfikar Mustapha

    Mustapha was one of the participants in a round table on the role of farmers and rural communities in the sustainability of agrifood systems, organized by the Council of the Americas and the IICA.
  • Food company Pepsico commits to sourcing all its raw materials from sustainable agriculture by 2030

    This was announced by the company's CEO for Latin America, Paula Santilli, during a roundtable that she participated in with Latin American and Caribbean Ministers of Agriculture, and other senior executives of global companies involved in the production and marketing of food.
  • Luis Basterra, Argentina’s Minister of Agriculture, insists that the world must consider payments for ecosystem services to countries that contribute to conservation 

    The remarks were made during a Roundtable Discussion about the role of farmers and rural communities in the sustainability of agri-food systems.
  • El Salvador sets out to recover the former splendor of its agriculture to boost economic development and provide opportunities to its population

    The Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of this Central American country, David Martínez, explained in an interview with the TV program AgroAmérica, which is broadcast by the Brazilian channel AgroMais, that they intend to do so through the recently created Agricultural Rescue Master Plan, which he described as “a compass to visualize where we want to take agriculture in the next ten years”.