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December 1, 2018

Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development and IICA renew commitment to work together.

Victor Villalobos, Mexico’s new Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER) met with Manuel Otero, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), during the latter’s visit to attend the inauguration of the new President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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November 22, 2018

IICA will broaden support in biosafety for its Member States

The announcement was made during the ninth Conference of the Parties (COP/MOP-9) in Egypt, during which the Institute highlighted the critical role that technologies play in consolidating  the sustainable, comprehensive development of humanity, which is currently undergoing multiple, vertiginous changes.

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November 22, 2018

IICA Moves, Again, But to a NEW PERMANENT Home!

Message from the Representative at the Official Opening of the New Office of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture in Trinidad and Tobago

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November 12, 2018

IICA and Bayer – on the path to a strategic partnership to drive sustainable agriculture in the Americas

The organizations will devise a framework agreement to facilitate joint initiatives in areas such as biotechnology, bioinputs, pollination and food production.

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October 31, 2018

Microsoft-IICA Agreement will boost innovation and the use of technology in the agriculture sector of the Americas

Today, the technological company and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture formalized a strategic relationship to facilitate the implementation of the Internet of Things, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in the agriculture sector of the Americas.

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October 26, 2018

Sharon Day, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, met with the Director General of IICA

During the meeting, which was held at the request of the head of the Institute, Manuel Otero, the officials explored areas in which it would be possible to increase cooperation between IICA, the government of the United States of America and its specialized agencies, as well as between the hemispheric agency and the U.S. private sector.

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October 23, 2018

Grenada Abattoir Poised to Process Safer Meats during the Busy Christmas Season

 

17 workers from one of the most important processing plants in the country were trained by IICA regarding mitigation and risk reduction

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October 19, 2018

IICA staff met with the Secretary of Agriculture-elect of Mexico

Gloria Abraham, IICA Representative in Mexico, and Diego Montenegro, Director of Management and Regional Integration of the international agency, participated in the meeting. They were welcomed by Víctor Villalobos, Secretary of Agriculture-elect of Mexico, and his work team, who endorsed IICA’s work for the benefit of Mexico’s agriculture sector.

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October 19, 2018

“The role of natural resources in the economy is key for economic and social development”

IICA participated in the International Forum on Bioenergy, during which it argued that bioeconomy allows for reassessing natural resource use and agricultural coordination.

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