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IICA and the prestigious Brazilian business school INSPER sign a scientific cooperation agreement to globally promote sustainability and agricultural trade
With an initial duration of two years, the agreement opens a series of opportunities for collaboration with the INSPER Agro Global program, which since 2019 has been analyzing the vectors of transformation and the insertion of Brazil in global agribusiness, contributing to the design of public policies and the training of leaders in the public and private sectors.
Minister of Agriculture Carlos Fávaro invites Director General Manuel Otero to the G20 Agricultural Summit and agrees to strengthen the joint work between Brazil and IICA with a focus on Caribbean resilience
Otero and Fávaro also discussed the organization of the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture – Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA), which will be held in Brazil in 2025. The Conference brings together the 34 Agriculture Ministers of the Americas every two years and is the main governing body of IICA. It will be held prior to COP30, which will be hosted in Belém do Pará, Brazil. Fávaro assured the full support of his country in organizing this meeting.
CATIE to create a Chair in Innovation in Agri-food Systems named in honor of Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA
The “Dr. Manuel Otero Inter-American Chair: Innovations in the Agri-Food Systems of the Tropics,” in recognition of the more than 35 years that the Director General of IICA has dedicated to the promotion and development of tropical and temperate agriculture in the Americas-
CATIE to create a Chair in Innovation in Agri-food Systems named in honor of Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA
The “Dr. Manuel Otero Inter-American Chair: Innovations in the Agri-Food Systems of the Tropics,” in recognition of the more than 35 years that the Director General of IICA has dedicated to the promotion and development of tropical and temperate agriculture in the Americas 
Chilean Ministry of Agriculture and IICA train rural producers in biofertilizer production and regenerative agriculture techniques
The activity is part of IICA's commitment to the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture to promote the use of biofertilizers, mainly in the country's coastal dryland sector, for producers affected by drought, eroded soils, the effects of climate change and high fertilizer prices.
Carbon harvesting, a key tool to enhance agriculture's role as a solution to climate change, was a central topic at the AAPRESID Congress
Carbon harvesting in the agenda of sustainable agriculture was one of the central topics in the special section of the congress that AAPRESID designed in collaboration with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), focusing on perspectives and opportunities for producers offered by agri-food systems in the Americas.