Vilella said his country intended to ask IICA and the Latin American Bioeconomy Network, which was established in 2023, to help the region focus on the conceptualization of the bioeconomy in response to Brazil’s proposal that the G20 address the issue in 2024.
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In the meeting, Özdemir y Otero agreed that, given its presence in the 34 countries of the Americas and its technical cooperation for agriculture and rural development in the hemisphere, IICA should serve as a nexus for joint work between the two regions.
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The 68-year-old Vilella was a Professor in the Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires for 48 years, also serving as Dean and occupying several other positions. He used these roles to champion the potential of the bioeconomy for production development.
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In many areas of South America, flooding can be taking place in one region at the same time that droughts are affecting another. Some production ecosystems could of course benefit from an adequate water supply following long periods of scanty rainfall.
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As they did at the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021 and at COP27, held in Egypt in 2022, the ministers of Agriculture, alongside IICA, presented a united position to guarantee global food security and defend common interests.
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Saboto Caesar, Minister of Agriculture of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines explained that climate negotiations are also part of the Caribbean region’s strategy to increase sustainability and food security.
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Farmers have demonstrated this and reinforced the leading role of agriculture at COP28 – the supreme negotiating and discussion forum on the present and future of global efforts to tackle climate change. COP28, taking place in the United Arab Emirates, has brought together 70,000 global leaders, including heads of State, ministers, senior officials, international organizations, private sector representatives, as well as youth and civil society organizations.
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During the activity, the countries of the region were invited to play an active part in the process leading up to the first COP to be held in Amazonia, whose goal must be to trigger a global change in environmental agendas.
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The setting for this motivating presentation was the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas, a pavilion that the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) installed together with its 34 Member States and other strategic partners from the private sector at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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