July 12, 2024
Food security is intimately linked to national security in all countries around the world. Therefore, it is essential that smallholder farmers have the tools to increase their productivity, contribute to economic growth, and improve their incomes and quality of life.
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July 11, 2024
Participatory public policies that empower farmers, build resilience in rural areas through access to credit, innovation, science and technology, and strengthen food security, are the best way to preserve the legacy of Norman Borlaug, the American agronomist who laid the foundations of modern agriculture, saved millions of people from hunger, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.
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July 4, 2024
Funded by GIZ and implemented by IICA in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, the ALER4TA project seeks to enhance the response capacity of countries to the threat of Fusarium Tropical Race 4 (Foc TR4).
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July 2, 2024
The study was presented at the Global Agribusiness Forum (GAF), part of the Global Agribusiness Festival in São Paulo, the world's largest agribusiness event organized by Datagro, which brought together around 12,000 people from the sector, including public managers and politicians.
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June 14, 2024
The launch was held in partnership with Peru’s Exporters Association (ADEX) and the US Department of Agriculture. The value of Peru’s agricultural exports to the US currently stands at USD 10.202 billion.
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June 10, 2024
To address these common points of interest, the Director of the Latin American Program of the Wilson Center, Benjamin Gedan; the President of Earth University, Arturo Condo; and the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, engaged in a public dialogue entitled “Global food security and sustainable agriculture in Latin America.”
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Trinidad and Tobago
May 20, 2024
It is for this reason, that the IICA funded and organised a poultry industry stakeholder consultation for Avian Influenza (AI) preparedness and outbreak management at the Sugarcane Feeds Centre in Longdenville
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May 10, 2024
In a webinar organized by the Mexican Association of Milk Producers, IICA/Mexico highlighted the contribution of livestock farming in the Americas to the production of high-nutrition protein, and the importance of implementing cooperation mechanisms to adapt good practices that help reduce carbon emissions.
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April 29, 2024
According to a new special report by the agencies, the cost of inaction on hunger and food insecurity represents an average of 6.4% of the GDP of the countries studied.
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