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Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2023 opens with a call for collective action and strategic partnerships to guarantee food security
The biennial Conference of Ministers of Agriculture will continue until Thursday, 5 October, bringing together ministers from 34 countries, private sector representatives and farmers from various countries in the region, under the slogan, “A Hemispheric Partnership for Food Security and Sustainable Development”.
The Caribbean nations are moving towards their goal to reduce food imports 25% by 2025, according to President of Guyana, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, addressing a press conference at IICA Headquarters
The President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, has said that his country and its fellow Caribbean nations are making steady progress towards achieving their proposed objective to reduce their multi-million dollar food import bill 25% by 2025.
Presidents, Nobel prize winners, senior government officials and rural leaders will mark the opening of the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture 2023 in Costa Rica
“A Hemispheric Partnership for Food Security and Sustainable Development” is the slogan of the meeting, where the ministers will seek to promote strategic partnerships involving both the public and private sectors and to enhance the role of technical cooperation in strengthening the agriculture sector.
At opening ceremony of IICA conference, Minister of Environment of the United Arab Emirates, host country of COP28, maintains that global climate discussions must prioritize agriculture
Almheiri was among the senior officials who participated in the opening ceremony of the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2023, which will conclude on Thursday, October 5. She was invited to take part in the event given the fact that the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will be hosting the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 28), as of November 30.
On the eve of their conference at IICA, ministers of agriculture of the Americas stress that collective action is crucial to combat food insecurity and tackle the climate crisis
The slogan for the event is “A Hemispheric Partnership for Food Security and Sustainable Development,” and the ministers said it was of crucial importance to promote strategic partnerships between the public and private sectors, and to boost technical cooperation, to build more resilient and productive agriculture.
United States Dairy Export Council and IICA reinforce partnership to drive the use of scientific standards in the dairy sector of the Americas
Since 2019, the two organizations have been partnering to enhance the role of livestock, animal proteins and dairy products in food and nutritional security and sustainable development in the hemisphere.