February 20, 2020
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.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Kingston, Jamaica
February 4, 2020
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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Longdenville, Trinidad and Tobago
January 30, 2020
IICA is conducting workshops in six Caribbean countries to boost composting as an economically viable and sustainable business.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Kingston, Jamaica
January 29, 2020
Principles of integrated waste management, waste stream analysis, comparing national and regional data, waste management options and composting as a waste management option were presented to the participants.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
January 28, 2020
The Forum hopes to attract the movers, shakers and disruptors in cocoa production and trade
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
January 22, 2020
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.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
December 3, 2019
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
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
November 25, 2019
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.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins
Castries, Saint Lucia
November 22, 2019
The plague affects important livelihoods and cross-sectoral advantages, like apiculture, given that citrus is a major source of forage, and agro-tourism linkages.
Tiempo de lectura: 3mins