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Commonwealth Secretariat and IICA strengthen efforts to boost food security in the Caribbean
Through this collaboration, both organisations aim to support Commonwealth Caribbean countries to better leverage digitalisation for increased food production, to achieve agricultural and fisheries development, including trade and investment, and rural well-being across the region.
The Ministers of Agriculture of Argentina and Brazil and the Director General of IICA agree on the need for further integration to deal with the effects of the global food crisis
Otero discussed with the two ministers the need to develop a joint, continent-wide strategy in response to rising food, energy, and fertilizer prices.
IICA recognizes Brazilian Francisca Neri as a “Leader of Rurality” for inspiring young people and helping to revolutionize sheep and goat farming in a municipality in northeast Brazil
The daughter of rural farmers from Betânia, a municipality in the state of Piauí, Francisca is now 25 and is Secretary of Family Farming, a position from which she promotes associativism and cooperativism to improve income and quality of life for small-sized farmers.
IICA took presence and message of rural women of the Americas to the European Union through photography exhibition in Brussels
The exhibition entitled “Rural Women of the Americas: Sowing Tomorrow’s Agriculture Today” was on display at the European Development Days 2022 organized by the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.
Five thousand students from Argentine agrotechnical schools to be trained in digital technologies through Agroedutec, a program promoted by the Argentine government and developed by IICA in collaboration with Microsoft, Bayer and the World Bank
The initiative seeks to develop digital skills in young people in order to carry out projects tied to the different productive environments of each area of the country. During the first phase, the program will benefit high school juniors and seniors in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Tucumán.
Knowledge-intensive agriculture is essential for transforming agriculture and addressing global food insecurity, says IICA Director General
IICA Director General gave a talk to around 60 participants at the headquarters of this organization specializing in rural and agricultural development, in San Jose, Costa Rica, as part of the sessions for the 32nd Global Conference of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) and the dialogue with the coalition NextGen Ag Impact Network (NGIN).