While the situation varies across different areas and droughts persist in some regions, climatic conditions for agricultural production have been improving in the Southern Cone and now offer positive prospects in much of the territory, according to a report prepared by specialists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

In a virtual seminar organized by IICA and the Executive Secretariat of the Central American Agricultural Council, experts discussed the Global Stocktake presented at COP28 in Dubai, a report that shows the status of national climate mitigation and adaptation actions.

Private estimates indicate that the pest has destroyed 20% of the projected corn production for this year in Argentina.

The need to make visible the advances in the region's agricultural activity in favor of greater sustainability and to strengthen coordinated action against environmentally-motivated international trade barriers were the main topics of a working meeting of agriculture ministers and high-level authorities that make up the Southern Agricultural Council (CAS).

At the 17th Special Meeting of the CAS held in Paris, the Council underscored the value of, and need for, the Institute’s technical cooperation to address a wide range of sector issues that transcend national borders and call for a regional approach.

To promote the use of biodigestion technologies, share successful experiences, and promote public policies to advance towards sustainable agrifood systems, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Network for Biodigesters in Latin America and the Caribbean (RedBioLAC) and the WISIONS of Sustainability Program, which operates under the aegis of Germany’s Wuppertal Institute, have launched the course “Application of biodigestion for the agroecological and bioeconomic transformation of agrifood systems in Ibero-America.”