The initiative, valued at close to USD 3.7 million and funded by Global Affairs Canada, will last four years and benefit about 1,300 families in those countries. 

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) underscores the importance of innovation and institution building in the livestock farming subsector in Mexico, and Latin America as a whole, to make it more sustainable and resilient and to combat climate change.

In a webinar organized by the Mexican Association of Milk Producers, IICA/Mexico highlighted the contribution of livestock farming in the Americas to the production of high-nutrition protein, and the importance of implementing cooperation mechanisms to adapt good practices that help reduce carbon emissions.

In partnership with CONAZA, Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Office of the Mayor of the Dr. Arroyo Municipality in Nuevo León, IICA is undertaking projects for water infrastructure rehabilitation and maintenance, among other initiatives.

The introduction of digital technologies is, undoubtedly, a prerequisite for transforming agrifood systems and making them more sustainable and resilient in the face of climate change. These technologies enable stakeholders to make much more efficient use of external inputs and natural resources, thus helping to reduce environmental impacts.

At a meeting with IICA Director General Manuel Otero and IICA’s Representative in Mexico, Diego Montenegro Ernst, SENASICA Director in Chief Javier Calderón Elizalde said that the partnership has been vital in protecting the agriculture sector in Mexico and throughout the Americas, and in strengthening the safe production and trade of healthy and safe foods.