May 31, 2021
The award is part of an initiative by the specialized agency in rural and agricultural development to recognize the men and women who are leaving their mark and making a difference in the rural areas of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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May 27, 2021
The Symposium featured more than 15 panel discussions, in which topics such as the importance of bioeconomy and its role in the region’s development were addressed, together with the strategies to eradicate malnutrition in vulnerable sectors and the new trends of global consumers, which have been accelerated by the impact of the pandemic.
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May 27, 2021
Family farmers in these Caribbean countries were recently given automatic and efficient irrigation systems, soil preparation tools, protective structures and climate resilient seeds.
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May 25, 2021
Nineteen-year-old Diana Carolina Urquía García from the municipality of Santa María, La Paz, Honduras, has improved her understanding of the coffee crop, thanks to training provided by the Central American Program for Integrated Coffee Rust Management (PROCAGICA).
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May 24, 2021
In a meeting organized by IICA, leading companies and organizations of the food business sector expressed their support for the “Living Soils of the Americas” initiative and for harmonizing the hemisphere’s positions leading up to the UN Food Systems Summit.
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May 21, 2021
The initiative is intended to encourage secondary school students to continue their education and to facilitate social inclusion of young people in the post-pandemic period by promoting the rights of the youth most affected by the challenges of virtual education.
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May 20, 2021
High levels of urbanization and informal labor have caused the Covid-19 pandemic to hit Latin America and the Caribbean harder than the rest of the world. Within this context, it was underscored that during the recession, agriculture acts as a cushion and a driver of recovery and growth.
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May 19, 2021
Improvements made to management accounting spearheaded by PROCAGICA at Augusto C. Sandino Cooperative also supported the growth of other small coffee farmer associations in Matagalpa.
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May 17, 2021
The men and women making a difference in Latin American and Caribbean rural areas will be bestowed with the #SoulOfRurality award, by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and will be invited to participate in various advisory bodies of the specialized agency for agricultural and rural development.
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