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Secretary of Agriculture of Honduras assumes chairmanship of IICA Executive Committee with an urgent call to combat poverty among farmers and foster sustainability
The Secretary indicated that agriculture in her country offers the best means of achieving development, feeding the population and generating foreign exchange.
Countries express broad support for IICA’s renewed roadmap to address global food security challenges
Ministers and representatives of more than 20 countries in the Americas who participated in the Forty-second Regular Meeting of the Executive Committee of IICA agreed that, in order to guarantee the continuity of technical cooperation of excellence, it is crucial to correctly interpret the current scenario, which shines the spotlight on the hemisphere’s role as a guarantor of the planet’s food, nutritional and environmental security.
Countries of the Americas defined actions to enhance food security and agricultural resilience
The members of the Executive Committee reiterated the importance of innovation, science and technology to make agrifood systems of the Americas more productive, sustainable and inclusive, and urged the Institute’s member countries to continue strengthening their capabilities in these areas and their linkages with the agriculture sector.
Ministers of Africa and the Americas to hold first summit to enhance cooperation on agrifood issues
The meeting, to be held on 27, 28 and 29 July in Costa Rica, will outline the role of Africa and the Americas in global food and environmental security. It will provide opportunities for bi-regional cooperation in science, technology and innovation, with a view to building resilient and sustainable food systems.
Food, energy and fertilizer crisis affords an opportunity for Latin America to accelerate the development of the bioeconomy, says IICA at important global forum
The region’s wealth of natural resources, new global demands for more sustainable production, and changes in the global geopolitical landscape represent a convergence of factors conducive to a more rapid transition towards a bio-based model.
Cooperative member Chito Quintero, a role model for peasant and indigenous communities in Panama, recognized by IICA as a “Leader of Rurality”
Quintero, who forms part of the Ngäbe-Buglé indigenous community, lost his mother at the age of 6 and had to work from an early age to support his siblings. He became a union leader shortly after becoming a banana farmer, and in 1991, he co-founded the banana cooperative Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Bananera del Atlántico (COOBANA), which currently has 220 members and more than 600 workers.