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Smallholder farmers in the Central American Dry Corridor receive training from IICA and EU to tackle climate change challenges
Work with small and medium-scale farmers is essential for guaranteeing the availability of and access to food in their plots and homes given their high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change due to geographic location.
Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock of Honduras advocates consolidating public and private partnerships to promote agriculture as a driver of sustainable development in the region
Laura Suazo highlighted the importance of addressing issues such as fair trade and the inclusion of rural women and youth during the meeting of ministers of agriculture due to be held in Costa Rica in October.
IICA kicks off Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas by calling for interregional collaboration to strengthen agricultural trade
Representatives of regional agricultural coordination mechanisms of the Americas make strides in fostering ongoing dialogue to drive trade.
The Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas ends with an endorsement of IICA’s proposed hemispheric partnership, declaring that regional agriculture is equal to the challenges facing the world
The conference sought to provide a forum to facilitate discussion, drive collective action and reinforce the region’s role as a guarantor of global food security and environmental sustainability, in a world that is currently grappling with converging crises and uncertainty.
Technologies can offer small farmers tremendous benefits for a small cost, maintained Nobel Prize laureate for Economics, Michael Kremer, addressing the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas at IICA Headquarters
The meeting of ministers, which opened with an appeal to strengthen the role of the hemisphere in guaranteeing global food security and environmental sustainability within the context of the climate and economic crises, will end on Thursday, 5 October.
Agriculture ministers and international credit agencies propose how to provide financial resources to countries in the Americas to strengthen food security in the face of climate change
Agriculture ministers of the Americas explained to representatives of IDB, CAF and the World Bank that support mechanisms are required for family farming, to incorporate advanced water management and soil regeneration practices, among others that foster sustainability.