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Alongside Ministers of Agriculture of the Caribbean, IICA reports on its work to strengthen food security and agricultural resilience in the region
At IICA Headquarters in San Jose, Manuel Otero, Director General of the Institute, and other officials of the hemispheric agency specializing in agricultural and rural development indicated that Caribbean countries are working to overcome multiple production challenges in the region. They emphasized the Institute’s commitment to assisting countries in implementing the best scientific and technological tools to reduce food insecurity and mitigate the climate crisis.
Caribbean Ministers of Agriculture gather in Costa Rica to discuss how to reduce food insecurity and build bridges with Latin America
The meeting of Caribbean ministers will be held prior to the Forty-third Regular Meeting of IICA’s Executive Committee, which will be held on July 19 and 20 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
In collaboration with IICA, El Salvador launches its Leadership School for the Transformation of Agrifood Systems
One hundred of the country’s youth farmers and agronomy students will be able to expand their knowledge of innovation and biotechnology, as well as climate smart and digital agriculture, among other areas.
Agriculture in the Americas has great potential to develop a robust liquid biofuels industry in the region, agree international experts in a new episode of the “IICA en Acción” podcast
The podcast includes a segment devoted to the Living Soils of the Americas initiative spearheaded by IICA together with the Rattan Lal Carbon Management and Sequestration Center (C-MASC) of The Ohio State University.
The 2023 ICABR Conference showcased the progress in the Latin American and Caribbean bioeconomy thus far and its immense potential to drive sustainable development in the region
The 27th Annual Conference of the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR), which took place over 4 days in Buenos Aires, brought together more than 150 researchers and scientists from the Americas, Europe and Africa, who are specialists in the bioeconomy, in addition to policy experts, entrepreneurs and bioentrepreneurs.
The future of Latin America and the Caribbean hinges on building the bioeconomy as a vision for development, said global agricultural innovation expert, Eduardo Trigo, at the 2023 ICABR Conference
Trigo was delivering his address at the auditorium of Argentina’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MinCyT) – the venue of this high-level scientific meeting, co-organized by the Government of Argentina, ICABR and IICA.