The training was imparted in a virtual seminar organized by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA), and IICA.

Casio Luiselli, university researcher and member of IICA’s Advisory Council for Food Security in the Americas, insists that the current health crisis poses new challenges for rural areas and their systems of political and economic organization – challenges that necessitate the renewal of agrifood systems.

Registration for the event, to be held between May 24 and 28, is already open.

IICA is the coordinator of the Secretariat of the Alliance’s Executive Committee, whose mission is to support the banana industry in the fight against the destructive Fusarium TR4 fungus, by developing knowledge, technology, and a definitive scientific solution to the disease.

The meetings will be organized under the banner of the Summit Dialogues, requested by the organizers, as a means of stimulating discussion prior to the global forum. The issues to be addressed will include cooperatives, the bioeconomy, agricultural digitalization, the One Health approach and international trade.

Argentina’s Permanent Representative to the UN, María del Carmen Squeff (second, above), addressed the XV Meeting of IICA’s High-Level Advisory Council for Food Security in the Americas and urged the countries in the hemisphere to actively participate in the dialogues and various activities in preparation for the Summit.