October 3, 2024
At a strategic virtual assembly of the Forum of the Americas for Agricultural Research and Technological Development, the Institute launched a comprehensive proposal with three priorities for strengthening the program.
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September 27, 2024
The goal of the joint work is to strengthen the agri-food systems in the region as providers of solutions in a global scenario of a growing population, political conflicts, and climate crises. The debate took place at Columbia University’s Forum, a venue for events that often shape the international public debate agenda.
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September 24, 2024
The banana disease poses a threat to global food security and to the incomes of millions of small farmers around the world.
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September 23, 2024
With food security having become one of the most important issues on the international public agenda, in New York this week the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, is taking part in high-level discussions on sustainable agriculture and climate action, parallel to the sessions of the United Nations General Assembly.
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September 19, 2024
The planned exchange is the result of a major effort by Columbia University's School of Climate and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). The partnership is designed to shed light on the true contribution of agriculture in the region to food security, environmental balance and global social stability.
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September 13, 2024
Manuel Otero noted that agriculture is facing new challenges, such as energy security, in addition to those of sustainability, food and nutrition security, food safety, and rural and territorial development.
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Washington, DC
September 12, 2024
The Wilson Center's Brazil Institute is pleased to announce a private dialogue event, Farming Forward: Strategic Approaches to Sustainable Agriculture, featuring Silvia Maria Fonseca Silveira Massruhá, President of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), and Roberto Perosa, Brazil's Secretary of Commerce and International Relations at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA). The event will take place at the Wilson Center on September 20, 2024, from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET.
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September 12, 2024
The ministers adopted two statements: one on the value of biotechnology, and the other on the application of criteria for the inclusion of banned or severely restricted chemicals in the Rotterdam Convention, which seeks to promote shared responsibility and joint efforts regarding the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals, in order to protect human health and the environment.
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September 12, 2024
IFAD and IICA have been working together since 1987, when they signed their first agreement aimed at improving the quality of life of rural dwellers in Latin American and Caribbean nations.
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