In 2020, The Farmer’s Anthem formed part of IICA’s popular music tribute to farm workers.
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The South American country—considered to be the food basket of the Caribbean—is expecting to reap the largest rice crop in its history and to increase sugar production, even as it works to develop non-traditional crops.
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The third hemispheric meeting of ministers and secretaries of Agriculture will seek to drive the recovery and transformation of the region’s agrifood systems, which have been affected by the pandemic.
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The participants included Saboto Caesar, Minister of Agriculture of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Krysta Harden, Executive Director and President of the U.S. Dairy Export Council; Manuel Bravo, President and Executive Director of Bayer Mexico; Michael Kremer, University of Chicago professor and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics; and Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA.
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The entities signed an agreement to encourage the inclusion of youth in the design of policies and initiatives in areas such as resilience, traceability, biotechnology, sanitary and phytosanitary matters and food security.
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Clarence Rambharat, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, was interviewed from Port of Spain on the Agro América program, which airs on the Brazilian TV station, Agro Mais.
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Caribbean ministers of agriculture stressed the need to reduce food import dependency and to digitalize rural areas, while offering proposals to increase climate change resilience.
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IICA and CSAYN will contribute to an exchange of knowledge between the Americas and Africa in order to promote rural well-being, agricultural productivity, food security, and the rational use of natural resources.
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María Emilia Undurraga, Chile's Minister of Agriculture, in an interview with Agro America, a program broadcast on Brazil's Agro Mais TV channel, gave details of her country's public policies in favor of rural development.
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