Consisting of seven chapters, it includes input from specialists of institutions of excellence such as EMBRAPA (Brazilian Agricultural Research Company), the Argentine Association of Direct Seeding Farmers (AAPRESID), Chile’s National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA), Uruguay’s National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA), the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), and the Costa Rica Coffee Institute (ICAFE).
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At the upcoming COP27, Rattan Lal and the Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero, will spearhead the Institute’s support for the efforts of the countries of the Americas to ensure that agriculture’s voice is heard loud and clear on the global stage of the climate discussions.
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Otero was awarded the title in recognition of his work to foster sustainable agriculture and rural development in the Americas, collective action among countries of the region, the digitization of agriculture, tropical agriculture and the improved positioning of the agriculture sector.
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At the UN climate summit, the agriculture sector of the Americas aims to ratify its key role as a guarantor of global food and environmental security.
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The page (available at https://cop27.iica.int/en) offers detailed information about the strategic role of the region’s agriculture sector in tackling climate change, and the contribution it will make to the upcoming event, as the eyes of the world turn to Sharm El Sheikh.
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Implementation of the initiative will get under way in the first quarter of 2023, and take a year and a half to complete.
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In June of this year, IICA launched a topical, dynamic program on a new platform designed to appeal to new audiences. A number of podcast episodes have now been produced focusing, in particular, on the Living Soils of the Americas initiative promoted by IICA and the Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration (C-MASC), which is headed by renowned scientist Rattan Lal, considered the world's foremost authority on soil science.
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The Director General of the IICA, Manuel Otero, attended this year’s event, which included the presentation of the “Agriculture for Peace” project – a platform created to spur collective action, the forging of partnerships and collective programs aimed at furthering the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2: the eradication of hunger.
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The session entitled “Food Governance in an Unprecedented Era” discussed how to guarantee an adequate functioning of the agri-food systems in times of simultaneous crises that have severe consequences for individual countries and for the world.
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