Ir Arriba

News

  • FONTAGRO and IICA promote the strengthening of innovation ecosystems to develop and apply new technologies to agriculture

    The organizations launched a webinar series in which specialists will analyze the opportunities for agro-digitalization in the Americas.
  • U.S. Secretary of Agriculture participates in a meeting with the Mercosur countries and Chile and Bolivia, prior to the UN Food Systems Summit

    At the meeting, in response to a request by ministers of the Southern Agricultural Council (CAS), the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) handed over a technical report on beef cattle as a “strategic asset” of the region.
  • Countries of the Americas to show strategic importance of farming at global forum in Rome

    The global events scheduled for this year are an opportunity for the region to show the world the reality of its livestock systems, which, through good practices, have a positive environmental impact thanks to the carbon sequestered in pasture soils.
  • The Republic of Korea and IICA seek alliances to promote low-carbon farming and improve the quality of life in rural areas

    Strengthening relations with the Korean Cooperation gains importance in the context of the efforts made by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to develop projects aimed at climate-resilient farming through IICA, which was recently accredited by the Green Climate Fund with headquarters in the Asian country.
  • Organic Farming: An innovative production system that promotes gender and youth inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Participants stressed that farmer organizations are key for the competitiveness of organic production.
  • New professional postgraduate degree: IICA will provide support to the Agricultural and Environmental Finance Program of the University of Buenos Aires’ School of Agriculture

    The Agricultural and Environmental Finance Program promotes knowledge acquisition of both traditional and modern financial instruments in the agriculture and agrifood sector, financing strategies of emerging technologies and new instruments available to fund climate change and sustainable development.