May 13, 2021
Tereza Cristina, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil, and Zulfikar Mustapha, Minister of Agriculture of Guyana, met to set in motion an extensive cooperation agenda. Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, also took part in the meeting.
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May 12, 2021
IICA has launched a series of virtual dialogues to ensure that the agriculture sector of the Americas will have a strong voice at the UN Food Systems Summit 2021.
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May 6, 2021
IICA is the coordinator of the Secretariat of the Alliance’s Executive Committee, whose mission is to support the banana industry in the fight against the destructive Fusarium TR4 fungus, by developing knowledge, technology, and a definitive scientific solution to the disease.
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May 6, 2021
The meetings will be organized under the banner of the Summit Dialogues, requested by the organizers, as a means of stimulating discussion prior to the global forum. The issues to be addressed will include cooperatives, the bioeconomy, agricultural digitalization, the One Health approach and international trade.
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May 5, 2021
AgroArt, the Virtual Art Museum of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), inaugurated the exhibit dubbed “The Colors of Earth”, supporting the recognition of budding Latin American artists in an initiative that could be replicated across the Americas.
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May 4, 2021
The ministers expressed their support in a meeting of the Southern Agricultural Council (CAS, in Spanish). They also requested that IICA prepare a report on the sustainability of livestock production systems in the region and agreed to mobilize “all technical and diplomatic resources” to ensure that the voice of South America is heard at the UN Food Systems Summit. The Director General of IICA offered to establish linkages between the Andean Region, Caribbean, Central America and North America to help unify their position.
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April 29, 2021
Minister Limber Cruz announced a record production of beans, rice, vegetables, tomatoes and onions, as well as cooperation actions with Costa Rica to modernize the coffee industry. "We will be self-sufficient in coffee and we will export this product again," he said. Major support was also given to the fruit growing sector.
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April 29, 2021
Roland Méndez, Mayor of the Costa Rican municipality that is home to IICA Headquarters and Manuel Otero, the Director General of the international organization, signed a document of understanding regarding the construction of an ambitious project, which was declared a site of Public Interest, by the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado.
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April 27, 2021
The occasion was the VI Conference and XIII Territorial Development Forum, organized by IICA, in collaboration with the Territorial Management Networks (GTD) of Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Spain.
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