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Producers Market and IICA unite efforts to digitalize and simplify agrifood trade in the Americas
The agreement will focus on facilitating trade and farmers’ access to different markets and consumers, via a technological platform that enables transparency and equity.
IICA Director General to be a member of one of the UN Food Systems Summit support networks
At the invitation of Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General to the 2021 Food Systems Summit, IICA Director General, Manuel Otero, will represent the agriculture and rural sectors of the Americas in one of the four main support mechanisms of the global meeting.
Trinidad and Tobago cooperative to launch a new brand of rice with the support of IICA
In this country, IICA is assisting the Moruga Hill Rice Multipurpose Cooperative Society to launch its Red Gold Hill Rice brand, under the IICA Director General’s special COVID-19 initiative – the Single Fund for Technical Cooperation.
IICA’s new Representative in Brazil, Gabriel Delgado, highlights and strengthens partnership with the country’s Ministry of Agriculture
In Brasilia, Delgado met with Tereza Cristina, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil, who described the partnership with IICA as “crucial” for Brazilian family farming and regional consensus-building.
Caribbean countries and IICA will collaborate to develop climate-resilient and low-emission agriculture
A projected funded by the Green Climate Fund will benefit the agriculture sectors of The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago
Pilot plan for Costa Rica’s rural technical schools seeks to encourage youth to embrace the biological, agricultural and environmental sciences
The initiative was launched by the IDB, IICA, the Government of Costa Rica and Microsoft, with a donation of 1.2 million dollars from the Special Fund for Poverty Reduction Program (JPO) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The partnership is aiming to develop an educational model that incorporates the needs of rural areas into the curriculum of rural schools and to heighten interest in agriculture-related professional careers.