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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 4, 2020

Jamaica launches the International Year of Plant Health in the Caribbean with the support of IICA

Protecting plant health can help end hunger by reducing crop losses to pest and diseases, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development.

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January 22, 2020

IICA will support the Argentinian government’s efforts to achieve food and nutritional security

IICA’s Director General and Argentina’s Minister of Agriculture crafted a work agenda focusing on issues such as territorial development, family farming and the strengthening of regional economies.

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December 3, 2019

IICA Hosts Trade Meeting with USTR Agricultural Negotiators and Members of Diplomatic Corps

The United States’ Chief Agricultural Trade Negotiator Ambassador Gregg Doud and his top agriculture trade team discuss key trade issues with agricultural attaches and representatives of International Organizations during IICA’s high-level trade meeting hosted in Washington DC

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November 25, 2019

IICA participated in a meeting of experts organized by Bayer in Germany to discuss opportunities for small-scale farmers

IICA was the only institution representing the Americas in a roundtable of international experts hosted by Bayer’s Crop Science Division in Germany. The participants discussed and identified productive opportunities that would allow for improving economic and social conditions for small-scale farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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November 6, 2019

St. Lucia beekeepers to receive support from Argentine experts under the Caribbean API Project

Two Argentine experts will arrive in December in the Caribbean country to train beekeepers in the use of a new variety of hives.

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November 1, 2019

Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas agree to strengthen IICA’s health program to drive trade

They also called for the expansion and replication of the new Interpretive Center for Tomorrow’s Agriculture (CIMAG) - the product of a Microsoft-IICA partnership, aimed at revaluing the agriculture sector in the eyes of upcoming generations.

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November 1, 2019

New Atlas for Agriculture in the Americas: an attractive and accurate portrayal of the agriculture sector

It presents the main indicators with respect to agricultural activity in the hemisphere and is available in print or on the web at atlas.iica.int. The ebook version will be launched in the next few days.

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Colombia

November 1, 2019

Deputy Minister of Agricultural Affairs of Colombia: IICA can assist in strengthening family farming

The Deputy Minister of Agricultural Affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture of Colombia, Marcela Urueña Gómez, stated that her country could benefit from the work programs of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in areas such as family and peasant farming as well as bioeconomy.

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