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Challenges facing agriculture require urgent interagency partnerships

IICA seeks new strategic partners for its efforts to improve agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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IICA Executive Committee declares: “Innovation is central to meeting the challenges agriculture will face in the 21st century”

It is essential to promoting competitiveness, meeting new food demands and developing socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable production practices.

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IICA Updates U.S. State Department of Activities in Haiti

“Throughout 2010, IICA acted as a bridge for horizontal cooperation in efforts to begin rebuilding Haiti’s agriculture sector and improving food security.”– Victor M. Villalobos, IICA Director General.

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Costa Rica and IICA sign agreement to organize hemispheric agricultural meeting

Ministerial will be held in San Jose on October 19-21 and has been declared an event of public and national interest.

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More than 1 billion hectares planted in biotechnological crops since 1996

Small-scale farmers make up 90% of all those who grow such crops.

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While at IICA, Minister of Agriculture of Barbados reviewed agricultural challenges of his country

Senior agricultural sector authorities visited three sustainable agriculture farms in Costa Rica; will attempt to promote the application of such practices in their country.

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Costa Rica to be the site of the most important meeting of ministers of agriculture held in the hemisphere

The Director General of IICA made the announcement during a coordination meeting involving several of the Institute’s member countries.

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World-renowned expert in biotechnology calls for agriculture to be given “the priority it deserves”

According to Albert Sasson, given the rise in food prices worldwide and the impact it is having on food security and poverty, governments and cooperation agencies should attach greater attention to agriculture on their agendas.

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Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Raises Institutional Profile in Washington, DC

Villalobos met with officials of strategic partners and US government agencies.

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