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November 4, 2021

Young people from Peru and Ecuador design virtual platform to create Rural Youth Community of the Americas

Physics, biology and IT professionals won the 2021 Rural Youth Hackathon organized by IICA for this purpose.

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November 1, 2021

Connectivity and digital skills building are key to expanding technologies among small-scale farmers

The Director General of IICA, as well as IDB and Microsoft officials, participated in the event “Dynamics of and Outlook for AgriTech in Latin America”, organized by the Colombian Farmers’ Society (SAC) and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). 

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October 29, 2021

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Meat and IICA will promote good practices and research in the meat industry

Both institutions work to transform agri-food systems from livestock and rural development in the Americas.

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October 28, 2021

PepsiCo and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) establish an alliance for soil recovery and conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean

With this new alliance, PepsiCo joins the “Living Soils of the Americas”, program designed to improve rural well-being, productivity, and food security while respecting environmental limits and making rational use of natural resources.

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October 20, 2021

Promoter of opportunities for rural women, Keithlin Caroo, conferred title of IICA Goodwill Ambassador

Caroo left her dream job and a stable income at the United Nations to focus on improving the lives of rural women through a new efficient, profitable and technological agriculture.

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October 20, 2021

Challenges to transforming agrifood systems: A high-level debate in conjunction with the conferral of the World Food Prize

The participants will exchange ideas and information on the actions needed to achieve more sustainable agrifood systems in the region—a primary net exporter of food—and in the world.

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October 18, 2021

European Union and IICA join forces to minimize food and nutrition insecurity for 1,508 families in the Trifinio region of Central America

The AGRO-INNOVA and PROCAGICA projects provide technical assistance and agricultural inputs to bolster food production based on good agricultural practices under agroforestry systems.

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October 15, 2021

Female farmers from Latin America and the Caribbean recount their efforts and fight against inequality on International Day of Rural Women

Chile’s Minister of Agriculture, María Emilia Undurraga, also delivered a message at the event organized by IICA, during which participants listened to firsthand accounts that reflect women’s growing leadership in rural areas and discussed the need to give greater visibility to the inequality gaps that affect them.

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October 14, 2021

Colombian cocoa farmer and defender of rural women’s rights Liliana Jiménez Molina recognized by IICA as a “Leader of Rurality”

Through her agricultural work, Liliana seeks to make women protagonists in Colombia's vast rural areas.

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