December 7, 2023
The setting for this motivating presentation was the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas, a pavilion that the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) installed together with its 34 Member States and other strategic partners from the private sector at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
December 7, 2023
Representatives of the Argentine Association of Direct Seeding Producers (AAPRESID), the Canadian firm Nutrien, the world’s largest provider of agricultural inputs, and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA, also from Canada) took part in an activity at the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas (IICA’s pavilion at COP28), where they highlighted the importance of collaborative efforts in achieving zero emissions in the agrifood value chain in order to make production more sustainable and promote food safety.
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December 7, 2023
The presentation was made jointly by IICA and the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC), which promotes the development in harmony with the environment of the region’s indigenous peoples, communities and organizations.
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December 6, 2023
The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Sustainable Production and Irrigation (SEAPI) of the state of Rio Grande do Sul; the state’s public authority for the rice industry (IRGA) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) presented a project to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), aimed at funding research and activities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on rice plantations in Southern Brazil.
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December 6, 2023
The framework agreement of understanding, signed by WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and IICA Deputy Director General Lloyd Day, representing the Institute's Director General, Manuel Otero, aims to contribute to achieving a fairer agricultural system while addressing new challenges affecting trade and markets in food and agriculture, including food security, environmental sustainability and innovation.
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December 5, 2023
The event served as a sounding board for producers in the hemisphere who apply good practices that generate valuable benefits, for both themselves and consumers.
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December 5, 2023
Given Latin America’s huge sustainable agricultural production and high levels of agroindustrial development, the region’s biofuels are a much more effective resource than electromobility for achieving the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector.
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December 4, 2023
Representing the Government of Brazil, Secretary Renata Miranda participated in the launch of the document at the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas pavilion, which IICA installed at COP28 as a way to visibilize the efforts that regional agriculture carries out for the mitigation of and adaptation to global warming.
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December 4, 2023
At COP28, the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is being held in the United Arab Emirates, experts from international organizations agreed that Latin America and the Caribbean has enormous potential to meet the demand for food for a burgeoning world population, while at the same time reducing the environmental impact of agricultural activities.
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