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Alfred Barrent with participant examining citrus plants in the field

Castries, Saint Lucia

November 22, 2019

IICA helps build Saint Lucia’s capacities for the rapid response and long-term management of citrus greening

The plague affects important livelihoods and cross-sectoral advantages, like apiculture, given that citrus is a major source of forage, and agro-tourism linkages.

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IICA and the International Potato Center will work together on an agenda focused on agrobiodiversity, resilience and food and nutritional security

Both institutions will also prioritize initiatives associated with migration, productivity, research, development and agricultural innovation.

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Rural youth win IICA 2019 Hackathon with their app to protect animals against natural disasters

The competition took place this weekend at IICA Headquarters, with the technical support of SENASA, Microsoft, World Animal Protection and CENFOTEC University.

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St. Lucia beekeepers to receive support from Argentine experts under the Caribbean API Project

Two Argentine experts will arrive in December in the Caribbean country to train beekeepers in the use of a new variety of hives.

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IICA partners with CODESPA Foundation, 4-H, as well as the UCR and CENFOTEC universities to accelerate the modernization of agriculture in the Americas

The new agreements will strengthen IICA’s capacity to provide technical cooperation in matters related to agrotourism, rural youth, online training and agricultural research.

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Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas agree to strengthen IICA’s health program to drive trade

They also called for the expansion and replication of the new Interpretive Center for Tomorrow’s Agriculture (CIMAG) - the product of a Microsoft-IICA partnership, aimed at revaluing the agriculture sector in the eyes of upcoming generations.

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New Atlas for Agriculture in the Americas: an attractive and accurate portrayal of the agriculture sector

It presents the main indicators with respect to agricultural activity in the hemisphere and is available in print or on the web at atlas.iica.int. The ebook version will be launched in the next few days.

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Deputy Minister of Agricultural Affairs of Colombia: IICA can assist in strengthening family farming

The Deputy Minister of Agricultural Affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture of Colombia, Marcela Urueña Gómez, stated that her country could benefit from the work programs of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in areas such as family and peasant farming as well as bioeconomy.

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Minister of Agriculture of the Bahamas: “Our efforts are to avoid becoming climate refugees”

“The carnage of Dorian over three days taught our citizens lessons about climate change and global warming that years of international commentary on greenhouse gas emissions have not been able to teach," Pintard told the during the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture 2019, held in San José, Costa Rica, and organized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

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