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April 14, 2021

Having expanded rice and sugar production, Guyana aims to diversify further, says Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, in a Brazilian TV interview

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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April 13, 2021

Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas will participate in new meeting convened by the Director General of FAO, the Director General of IICA and the Regional Representative of FAO

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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April 8, 2021

Experts at a Council of the Americas seminar maintained that farmers should be prioritized in discussions about the future of food systems

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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April 5, 2021

IICA and the Institute on Science for Global Policy will promote the development of science-based agricultural policies

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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March 31, 2021

IICA and COLEACP will promote entrepreneurship development in the Caribbean

The entities will collaborate under a technical cooperation agreement, aimed at developing a more sustainable agriculture sector and providing training for small farmers and MSMEs.

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March 31, 2021

International cooperation is key to strengthening food security amidst the pandemic says the Minister of Agriculture of Trinidad and Tobago

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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March 31, 2021

Caribbean ministers highlighted IICA’s role in tackling food insecurity and discussed new challenges stemming from the pandemic

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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March 29, 2021

The rural youth of Africa and the Americas will engage in dialogue with a view to promoting agricultural sustainability

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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March 29, 2021

The time has come to generate conditions for the rural sector to be considered a place of opportunities and development, declared the Minister of Agriculture of Chile

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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