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March 24, 2020

Ministers of Agriculture of MERCOSUR, CHILE, BOLIVIA and PERU establish standards to guarantee transportation of food supplies

The online meeting was convened at the request of Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Tereza Cristina (center), who was accompanied by representatives from her country’s Ministries of Infrastructure and Foreign Affairs.

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March 16, 2020

Small-scale producers in Central America build solar dryers to preserve and improve coffee quality

35 leading producers in Central America have installed these technological models, thus improving the processing of their coffee for the 2019-2020 harvest season, enhancing the quality of the bean, and in turn boosting their income through better sale prices, the total capacity of the dryer is between 14 and 15 quintales.

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March 10, 2020

A new photographic exhibition on rural women, The Soul of Rurality, opens in Canada

As a result of the partnership between IICA and Vogue, the photographs exhibited in Ottawa depict the essential role played by women in agriculture throughout the Americas.

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March 3, 2020

IICA and CIRAD renew agreement to drive the bioeconomy and agricultural innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean

The organizations have a long history of joint work, which includes the PROMECAFÉ and PROCAGICA programs that support coffee farming in Central America.

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February 27, 2020

IICA joins Argentina in the fight against food insecurity and health problems in the wichis communities of Salta

IICA Representative in Argentina, Caio Rocha, led a technical mission to the northern province of Salta to assist national and local government efforts to tackle the social and health emergency that has been declared in the departments of the district.

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February 27, 2020

IICA and the Bioversity International-CIAT Alliance provided training in gene editing to researchers in Central America and the Andean region

The course covered technical foundations, genome editing applications and regulatory developments.

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February 20, 2020

Minister of Science and Technology of Costa Rica endorses CIMAG, an IICA initiative that brings together education and tomorrow’s agriculture

Adrián Salazar, head of MICITT, offered his support for the Interpretive Center for Tomorrow’s Agriculture (CIMAG), which was jointly created by IICA and Microsoft to familiarize young people in the Americas with the use of modern technologies in agriculture.

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February 19, 2020

IICA and CropLife join forces to promote good agricultural practices and responsible biotechnology use in Latin America and the Caribbean

An agreement signed between the organizations will promote regional agricultural sustainability by providing biotechnology and biosecurity training to producers and other groups.

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February 7, 2020

IICA and MIOA maintain that information technology use in agricultural markets would enhance food trade and transparency

The organizations are pushing for the applications of tools such as big data, artificial intelligence, chatbots, digital marketing, the Internet of Things, machine learning and satellite imagery.

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