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Trade and agricultural health and food safety specialists from Latin America and the Caribbean underscore the importance of regulatory convergence and equivalence agreements to strengthen agrifood trade across the region
In a forum organized by the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) and IICA, more than 170 people shared their experiences to promote regulatory convergence based on equivalence in agrifood trade.
Eroded soils can regenerate and become fertile land for agriculture, state members of Pampeanas Regenerativas Orientales in new episode of the IICA en Acción podcast
Pampeanas Regenerativas Orientales is a women’s group from Uruguay that implements regenerative agriculture practices with a focus on soil health and the capacity to produce healthy food.
Sustainable agricultural practices: key to boosting the decarbonization of agriculture in the Americas
This has been borne out by Bayer’s PRO Carbon initiative, as explained by program representatives during a visit to exchange perspectives with IICA on both entities’ efforts to develop a carbon neutral agriculture sector.
CARICOM and IICA confirm alliance and prioritize actions to combat food and nutrition insecurity and improve the climate resilience of agriculture in the Caribbean
The agreement proposes joint advances in the areas of policymaking for agricultural and rural development, production systems, promotion of value chains, resilience of the agricultural sector and improvement of land use in the Caribbean countries.
IICA and Bioversity-CIAT Alliance further training in precision biotechnology
Geared towards teachers, the course focused on sharing knowledge on and providing training in CRISPR-Cas gene editing techniques. This will allow for expanding the number of institutions that could eventually contribute biotechnology solutions to address various agricultural issues.
In Costa Rica, European Union and IICA inaugurate stand that demonstrates how satellite-based applications can benefit agriculture in the Americas
The new exhibit was inaugurated at the Interpretive Center for Tomorrow’s Agriculture (CIMAG) at IICA Headquarters in Costa Rica – a public space that highlights the ways in which digital technologies are transforming agriculture in the hemisphere.