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August 19, 2020

Artwork by Argentinean painter Manuel Cancel is featured on IICA’s virtual gallery “Art, Education and Agriculture”

The gallery, which is available on IICA’s website, features paintings that depict different realities of rural areas in the Americas.

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August 18, 2020

Brazil: first Latin American country slated to benefit from agricultural digital solutions, spearheaded by Nobel Prize winner, Michael Kremer

This was announced by Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, at a ceremony in which the 2019 Nobel Prize winner for Economics was named an IICA Goodwill Ambassador. The focus will be family farming.

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August 15, 2020

At OAS Permanent Council meeting, Member States express decisive support for IICA actions

The endorsement was in response to a presentation by Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA (Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture), summarizing the 2019 Annual Report, which outlines the accomplishments of the agency for rural and agricultural development of the Americas. Otero also referred to the rigorous efforts of IICA during the months of the pandemic.

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August 14, 2020

Michael Kremer, 2019 Nobel Prize winner for Economics, will receive the title of IICA Goodwill Ambassador

Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, will present Kremer with the award during a ceremony that will include the participation of the ministers of Agriculture of Brazil and Colombia, Tereza Cristina and Rodolfo Zea Navarro.

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August 13, 2020

IICA launches challenge to create the Rural Youth Community of the Americas

The project encourages youth across the hemisphere to propose ideas and solutions for overcoming post-pandemic challenges in agriculture.

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August 6, 2020

Agro-processors in Grenada strengthened their governance capacity to improve competitiveness

A variety of value-added products are being made by other processors from the nutmeg pericarps and produce other agricultural goods to supplement their incomes whilst they try to improve market share for their nutmeg products.

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July 29, 2020

The Grenada National Forum takes it first step towards the Last Mile

The underlying Theory of Change of this Project is that Pluralistic Rural Advisory Services based on public-private partnership models, can be effective in responding to organised Rural Advisory Service demand, of individual and organised smallholder farmers.

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July 28, 2020

IICA Survey: Covid-19 is affecting family farmers and will impact the food supply

Family farmers in the Americas have been hard hit by the pandemic, as they face limited access to protective gear and difficulties in selling their products. They therefore foresee a reduction in the production of some basic products.

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July 22, 2020

Amidst the health emergency, 31 countries express broad support for IICA’s technical work to strengthen agriculture

They also expressed a strong commitment towards the Institute’s objectives during the virtual meeting of the Executive Committee of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), one of the governing bodies of the Institute.

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