San José, Costa Rica
September 22, 2025
Gessyane serves as Technical Coordinator of the Energia das Mulheres da Terra project, which brings together 42 women farmers’ organizations and strengthens family farming by promoting sustainable agroecological practices and agricultural innovation.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Buenos Aires, Argentina
September 22, 2025
Agriculture is essential for global peace and plays a crucial role in stability at a time when the rules that have governed the international order in recent decades are undergoing a profound transformation, said Manuel Otero, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), at one of Argentina’s most important agricultural events.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San José, Costa Rica
September 19, 2025
120 leaders from 20 countries will gather from September 22 to 25 at IICA headquarters.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Asunción, Paraguay
September 16, 2025
Nidia is President of the Comité de Santo Domingo, a group that seeks to improve the income and standard of living of the entire community.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Madrid, España
September 16, 2025
In his meeting with Planas, Otero reflected on the close collaboration with Spain and characterized the Institute’s technical cooperation as systemic, efficient and collaborative, providing benefits to more than ten million farmers and actively undertaking 358 projects to enhance food security and rural development.
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San José, Costa Rica
September 10, 2025
Erick Geovany Ac Tot—a prominent Guatemalan cocoa entrepreneur who has been assisting small farmer organizations, promoting high-quality cocoa production and preserving heirloom trees for years, in addition to being a cocoa taster—has been named a Leader of Rurality of the Americas by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San Salvador
September 9, 2025
The leaders who participated in the meeting were Macarena Valdés and Marco Aceituno from Chile; Elvia Monzón, Gustavo Rivas and Erick Ac from Guatemala; Katy Moncada and Eodora Méndez from Honduras; and Odette Varela and Salomón Zelada from El Salvador.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
San Jose, Costa Rica
September 3, 2025
The bioeconomy specialists were participating in Biohélice 2025, an event organized by Costa Rica’s Universidad Nacional, the CRBiomed association and IICA, which brought together more than 130 participants with an interest in innovation and bioeconomy.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Alagoas, Brasil
September 1, 2025
Eliane works with other women in the region to transform polluting waste substances into organic fertilizer.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
