The two organizations signed a cooperation agreement that will focus its efforts on women and youth through professional education, training, access to information and technology transfer.
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Jorge Werthein, Special Advisor to IICA’s Director General, Manuel Otero, represented IICA at the latest edition of the forum held in São Paulo, the first in-person event since the COVID-19 pandemic, which was entitled “Sustainable Cities: Global challenges, local solutions”.
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They did so at a high-level panel discussion convened to present the document “Conectividad rural en América Latina y el Caribe: estado de situación, retos y acciones para la digitalización y el desarrollo sostenible,” produced by the IICA, together with its partners the World Bank, Bayer, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, Microsoft and Syngenta.
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According to the research study “Rural Connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Situation, Challenges and Actions to Achieve Digitalization and Sustainable Development”, which was presented on Thursday by the IICA, the World Bank, Bayer, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, Microsoft and Syngenta.
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The research, which received support from the World Bank, Bayer, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, Microsoft and Syngenta, will be launched in a virtual event with the participation of ministers and secretaries of agriculture and private sector executives from the region.
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The participants in the virtual meeting were Cecilia López Montaño, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia; Laura Suazo, Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock of Honduras; Juan José Bahillo, Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Argentina; and Senator Avinash Singh of Trinidad and Tobago, who also serves as a minister in his country’s Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries.
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Despite their crucial role in food production and community life, women receive less income than men, and face greater obstacles to accessing land ownership and financing.
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Senior agricultural officials from Argentina, Colombia, Honduras and Trinidad and Tobago will participate in a virtual dialogue organized by the Wilson Center and IICA. Manuel Otero will deliver the closing remarks.
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The main objectives of the platform will be to develop a shared vision for sustainable livestock farming in the hemisphere and to promote policies and lines of action to assist current livestock farming systems in transitioning towards systems characterized by greater economic, social and environmental sustainability.
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