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Soil, animal and human health: the key to food safety and to increasing agri-exports from Latin America and the Caribbean
Direct planting systems open opportunities to eliminate tillage and sequester carbon in soil through photosynthesis while reducing the use of fossil fuels and, in turn, greenhouse gas emissions.
Reinforcement of policies, research, innovation ecosystems and markets: key to strengthening the role of the bioeconomy in transforming food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
In a document prepared by IICA and the ICABR, experts concluded that there are five main ways that the bioeconomy contributes to strengthening and transforming food systems.
Improved financial and credit management enabled cooperative to increase the productivity of small Nicaraguan coffee farmers
Improvements made to management accounting spearheaded by PROCAGICA at Augusto C. Sandino Cooperative also supported the growth of other small coffee farmer associations in Matagalpa.
The Colors of Earth: Artwork by Honduran painters on display in new AgroArt exhibit
AgroArt, the Virtual Art Museum of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), inaugurated the exhibit dubbed “The Colors of Earth”, supporting the recognition of budding Latin American artists in an initiative that could be replicated across the Americas.
Bayer online course on the IICA platform will help prevent the disease that is threatening banana production
The course is free and available on the IICA training platform (https://elearning.iica.int/). It provides important information about Fusarium, its historical, social, and economic consequences, its rate of propagation, and how it could affect global food security.
IICA initiative recognizes and turns the spotlight on rural leaders in the Americas
The men and women making a difference in Latin American and Caribbean rural areas will be bestowed with the #SoulOfRurality award, by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and will be invited to participate in various advisory bodies of the specialized agency for agricultural and rural development.