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Microsoft and IICA launch Minecraft-based technology challenge for high school students in Costa Rica

Registration is already open for the challenge, which seeks to foster digital and soft skills development among young people for application in agriculture.

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Costa Rica designates IICA as a carbon neutral organization

As part of its strategy, IICA sought to become a carbon neutral organization, recognized by the Costa Rican Ministry of the Environment and Energy (MINAE), in line with global climate action targets and based on the values of sustainability and environmental responsibility.

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Herbert Lewy, General Manager of Microsoft Smart Agriculture and Bioeconomy for Latin America; Guilherme Belardo, Business Development and Partnership Lead at Bayer; and Manuel Pérez, Director of Public Sector Business Development at Veolia.

Fostering partnerships between stakeholders that promote digitalization is key to accelerating the development of technological solutions for agriculture in the Americas

This was one of the conclusions of representatives from Microsoft, Bayer and French firm Veolia who participated in a roundtable discussion aimed at sharing ideas for dynamic and inclusive digitalization in the sector, during Digital Agriculture Week at IICA Headquarters.

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Tomás Peña, Director of The Yield Lab for Latin America; Juan Diego Mejía, Investment Director at Agcenter; Lina María Cuervo, co-founder and co-director of Cube Ventures; Christian Quiñones, co-founder of the venture capital fund Innogen Capital; Eduardo Chomali, Principal Executive of Telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies at CAF-Development Bank of Latin America; Enrique Hennings, Lead Technical Specialist in Rural Markets and Enterprises at IFAD; and William Ernest, Senior Spe

Investment funds and credit agencies highlight key elements to fund AgTechs in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly innovations aimed at increasing agricultural efficiency and sustainability

CAF, IFAD and IDB Lab, as well as the funds Innogen Capital, Cube Ventures, Agcenter and The Yield Lab, reviewed the factors that can provide technology companies focused on the agriculture sector with greater access to funding opportunities.

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IICA attends massive congress of corn and sorghum farmers in Argentina, where farmers are hailing the bioeconomy as an extraordinary opportunity for development  

Approximately 2,000 persons attended the event, including producers, researchers and various stakeholders from the agrifood value chain.

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At IICA, during Digital Agriculture Week, countries in the Americas shared their strategies for promoting innovation and the use of new technologies in rural areas

During the panel discussion on “Agrifood Digitization: Initiatives and public policies in countries in the Americas,” which took place during the second edition of Digital Agriculture Week, representatives of various governments gave details of the programs they are implementing across the continent.

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Digital Agriculture week opened with an appeal to place new technologies in the hands of all players in the Latin American and Caribbean rural sector

Digital Agriculture Week is a discussion forum, but even more so a forum for collective action, aiming to spur dynamic and inclusive agrifood digitalization. It is part of a series of activities on priority areas in agrifood system transformation, which IICA is promoting to create a hemispheric partnership for food security and sustainable development.

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Latin American and Caribbean agricultural authorities and researchers highlight the use of bioinputs to boost agricultural productivity and sustainability in the region

IICA, the EU, IDB, FAO, FONTAGRO and AGRO-INNOVA organized a forum in Panama to discuss opportunities for bioinput use in agriculture in the Americas and to identify possible areas for joint collaboration.

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Fifteen AgTechs offering digital agriculture solutions for the Americas will attend Digital Agriculture Week 2023 in Costa Rica

The winning companies were chosen from a field of 70 applicants. The event will adopt a hybrid—in-person and virtual—format.

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