Belém do Pará, Brazil
November 18, 2025
According to an IICA-CPBIO study, liquid biofuel production could be doubled without expanding the agricultural frontier by closing the gap in productivity of the six main crops currently used for the purpose: maize, sugarcane, wheat, soybeans, rapeseed and palm oil.
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San José, Costa Rica
November 18, 2025
The pavilion established by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and its partners at the world’s largest environmental discussion forum hosted a dialogue on the need to produce more food amidst the reality of natural resource degradation.
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Belém do Pará, Brazil
November 17, 2025
Farmers, private sector representatives and members of international organizations participated in the debate, all agreeing on the need to improve financing, as well as all stakeholders’ trust in regenerative agriculture.
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Belém do Pará, Brasil
November 17, 2025
The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), the KfW Development Bank on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) today signed the Financing and Implementation Agreement for the Regional Program for Integrated Fire Management in the Amazon Forest (IFM). The signing took place at the ACTO-CAF Pavilion during COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Belém do Pará, Brasil
November 14, 2025
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Belém do Pará, Brazil
November 14, 2025
On an ongoing basis, the GPS network generates scientific knowledge, thereby making a significant contribution to efforts to demonstrate that agriculture can play an important role in resolving environmental challenges, through different production options, such as the recovery of degraded soils, forestation, silvopastoral production systems and no-till farming.
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Belém do Pará, Brasil
November 14, 2025
The Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, highlighted the success of AgriZone, an area established at COP30 to show the world how tropical agriculture has evolved, as one of the most important sources of sustainable food production with tremendous growth potential.
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Belém do Pará, Brazil
November 13, 2025
A document prepared with the consensus of multiple stakeholders in the production and industrial sectors, stresses that the region must use evidence to strengthen its positioning, by citing scientific data that demonstrates the true impact of agricultural sustainability practices in Argentina and South America.
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Belém do Pará, Brazil
November 13, 2025
The event began with a discussion between Executive Secretary of the Legal Amazon Consortium and COP30 Special Envoy for Subnational States of the Amazon, Marcello Brito; and Manuel Otero, Director General del IICA.
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