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The Secretariat of Agriculture of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; the state’s rice development authority and IICA submit a project to the Green Climate Fund at COP28, seeking to reduce rice emissions.
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.
In IICA’s pavilion at COP28, circular bioeconomy of the Americas introduces the world to its production model in harmony with nature
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.
At COP28, agribusiness representatives highlight the fact that Latin American biofuels are making a useful, direct contribution to the global efforts to combat climate change
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.
WTO, IICA to deepen cooperation on farm trade, food security in Latin America and Caribbean
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.
Brazil praises document on cattle farming presented at IICA pavilion at COP28 and affirms that the negative narrative regarding the sustainability of agriculture must be confronted with data and science
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.
COP28: in Dubai, international agencies affirm that Latin America and the Caribbean has the potential to offer the world more food with less environmental impact, but small-scale farming is vulnerable and must be a focus of attention
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.