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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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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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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The course is free and available on the IICA training platform (https://elearning.iica.int/). It provides important information about Fusarium, its historical, social, and economic consequences, its rate of propagation, and how it could affect global food security.
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In a document prepared by IICA and the ICABR, experts concluded that there are five main ways that the bioeconomy contributes to strengthening and transforming food systems.
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IICA took part in a meeting to exchange ideas and experiences on how to ensure safer, more nutritious foods for the global population organized by the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN), which is based in Africa.
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Tereza Cristina, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply of Brazil, and Zulfikar Mustapha, Minister of Agriculture of Guyana, met to set in motion an extensive cooperation agenda. Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, also took part in the meeting.
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IICA has launched a series of virtual dialogues to ensure that the agriculture sector of the Americas will have a strong voice at the UN Food Systems Summit 2021.
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Casio Luiselli, university researcher and member of IICA’s Advisory Council for Food Security in the Americas, insists that the current health crisis poses new challenges for rural areas and their systems of political and economic organization – challenges that necessitate the renewal of agrifood systems.
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