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IICA supports the Honduran Secretariat of Agriculture in a project to spur improved food safety in Honduras and Belize
The initiative— “Piloting the Use of Voluntary Third-Party Assurance Programs in Central America (Belize and Honduras)—will receive technical and administrative support from the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
Member countries support IICA’s coordinating role in the Americas in preparation for the UN Food Systems Summit
IICA Director General, Manuel Otero, has announced that in the coming days, the Institute will present a conceptual document about the future of agrifood systems to the ministers and secretaries of agriculture of the Americas. The document will reflect on possible courses of action, seeking to arrive at a common position in the Americas to take to the Summit.
The Minister of Agriculture of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has issued a food security alert in this Caribbean country
At a meeting of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Minister Saboto Caesar asked for support and solidarity, and stated that "access to food in the country is in jeopardy" after the volcanic eruption that compromised the productive capacity of local agriculture.
Family farmers should have access to new technologies to fuel greater productivity, sustainability and income
Luciano Braverman, Director of Education for Microsoft Latin America spoke with the Agro América program, airing on Brazilian TV channel Agro Mais. about the role of rural schools in technology incorporation processes.
The EU-IICA program PROCAGICA presented its achievements to the Ministers of Agriculture of Central America
Restoration of coffee plantations, crop diversification to increase food security, strengthening of early warning systems and scientific research to improve the resilience of coffee plants are among the program’s most significant impacts.
Rattan Lal lecture for Paraguay: “Agricultural sustainability will only be possible if the human and social dimension is given top priority”
Speaking at a keynote lecture for Paraguay, the scientist, who is considered the world’s leading authority on soil sciences, established a direct relationship between environmental degradation, deteriorating living conditions and chronic poverty.