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May 14, 2021

Reinforcement of policies, research, innovation ecosystems and markets: key to strengthening the role of the bioeconomy in transforming food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

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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May 13, 2021

Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean see Food Systems Summit 2021 as an opportunity to secure more efficient, inclusive agriculture

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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May 13, 2021

Guyana seeks Brazilian support to spur agricultural leadership in the Caribbean

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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May 12, 2021

Cooperatives are pivotal to food system sustainability

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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May 10, 2021

Revamping agrifood systems: the key to developing the agriculture sector

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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May 6, 2021

Andean Ministers of Agriculture back Global Alliance against banana disease and call for increased joint international actions

IICA is the coordinator of the Secretariat of the Alliance’s Executive Committee, whose mission is to support the banana industry in the fight against the destructive Fusarium TR4 fungus, by developing knowledge, technology, and a definitive scientific solution to the disease.

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May 6, 2021

IICA to organize virtual dialogues to bolster the position of the agriculture sector of the Americas ahead of the Food Systems Summit

The meetings will be organized under the banner of the Summit Dialogues, requested by the organizers, as a means of stimulating discussion prior to the global forum. The issues to be addressed will include cooperatives, the bioeconomy, agricultural digitalization, the One Health approach and international trade.

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May 5, 2021

The Colors of Earth: Artwork by Honduran painters on display in new AgroArt exhibit

AgroArt, the Virtual Art Museum of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), inaugurated the exhibit dubbed “The Colors of Earth”, supporting the recognition of budding Latin American artists in an initiative that could be replicated across the Americas.

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May 5, 2021

The 2021 Food Systems Summit: an opportunity for the Americas to showcase the efficiency and productivity of its agriculture sector

Argentina’s Permanent Representative to the UN, María del Carmen Squeff (second, above), addressed the XV Meeting of IICA’s High-Level Advisory Council for Food Security in the Americas and urged the countries in the hemisphere to actively participate in the dialogues and various activities in preparation for the Summit.

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