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At 2023 Borlaug Dialogue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and IICA Director General emphasize the importance of policies and actions to diversify producers’ income and strengthen family farming
In addition to discussing new diversified farming models with Vilsack, Otero informed the U.S. Secretary of IICA’s work related to rural development and building climate resilience alongside farmers in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Government officers from Central America and the Dominican Republic are building their agricultural trade policy capacities, with the assistance of international organizations
The officials are pursuing an online program on Agricultural Trade Policy for the SICA region, developed by SIECA, SECAC, IICA and the FAO.
IICA’s technical cooperation in Costa Rica benefited 2,000 producers and multiplied the country’s investment in the hemispheric agency in 2022
In 2022, the technical cooperation delivered by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in Costa Rica directly benefited close to 2,000 producers in that country and multiplied the Central American nation’s contribution to the hemispheric agency by 25 times. This information was shared during a presentation delivered to Costa Rican agricultural authorities, producer organizations and private sector partners, among others.
In Argentina, IICA strengthens cooperation with Bayer to disseminate good agricultural practices
The Bayer initiative is being implemented on 24 agricultural demonstration plots in 12 countries around the world.
Regenerative agriculture is a fundamental tool to confront the climate crisis, claimed specialists in a debate organized by IICA at the Borlaug International Dialogue
Good agricultural practices, aimed at repairing the environment, contribute not only to greater productivity but also to the conservation of natural resources and the mitigation of climate change, agreed the experts that came together in a panel organized by the IICA, within the framework of the 2023 Borlaug Dialogue, hosted by the World Food Prize Foundation (WFP).
IICA Director General: agriculture must be part of COP 28 negotiations
His comments came at a press conference for the Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2023 held at Superclub Breezes Resort in Nassau, The Bahamas, recently.