For 25 years, Juana has managed a wildlife conservation management unit in the southern state of Chiapas, where she spends her time raising animals and restoring the environment. 

Costa Rica receives the equivalent of USD 33 in technical cooperation for each dollar it contributes to IICA, revealed Institute authorities at the annual accountability meeting.

Lal and IICA launched “Living Soils of the Americas” in December 2020. To date, the initiative has made significant progress in coordinating public and private efforts in the fight against soil degradation, a phenomenon that threatens to undermine the capacity of countries to sustainably meet the food demand.

Initiative by the EU and the Institute seeks to improve the climate resilience and food security of at least 3,000 small-scale farmers of basic grains in the Central American Dry Corridor.

The winning companies were selected from a total of 80 Agtechs from 15 different countries, who applied after a call for proposals was issued by IICA for the event to be held this month.

Flies was living in Toronto with her husband, Brent Preston, and their two small children when they decided to move to the countryside to establish a farm to cultivate the type of healthy food that they wanted to give to their children, while also contributing to environmental protection.