August 4, 2022
IICA Director General, Manuel Otero, welcomed Costa Rica’s Vice-President, Stephan Brunner Neibig, and outlined the extent of IICA’s cooperation programs and its “IICA of Open Doors initiatives.
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June 14, 2022
Gibson was not born into a farming family, but he understood from a young age that The Bahamas needed to increase local food production to become stronger as a country.
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May 19, 2022
IICA’s Director General explained that the world market is saturated with chemical fertilizers and many countries in the Americas are highly dependent on imports.
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April 27, 2022
"The region has the productive resources to tackle the challenge of balancing these apparently contradictory goals; that is, increasing production in light of its role at global level, while properly addressing priorities in climate action, inclusion and the reduction of poverty", said the Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero.
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April 7, 2022
Gathered at IICA Headquarters, the countries will seek to advance the coordination of actions focused on cross-border communication, the sharing of information and border controls; as well as public communication plans and coordination and cooperation between laboratories.
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March 30, 2022
Though its origins are from Asia, TR4 has been spreading westward and in 2019, it was detected in Colombia, setting off alarms in the tropical zones of Latin America and the Caribbean, whose countries are among the largest banana producers and exporters in the world. Later, in 2021, a strain was detected in Northern Peru.
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February 18, 2022
Within the framework of a regular meeting of the Central American Agricultural Council (CAC), senior officials gathered to review the status of agricultural trade in the region, among other issues.
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San José, Costa Rica
December 13, 2021
Latin American and Caribbean region is essential for the work of the Chair because it’s one of the most active regions in the development of law related to food security.
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November 24, 2021
The first major eruption of La Soufriere Volcano was last April and since then there have been thirty-two others. Approximately 20,000 people were evacuated from their homes, most of whom were farmers, given that the lands adjoining the volcano are used primarily for agriculture.
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