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At an event organized by Uruguay’s Embassy in Brazil and IICA, South American countries discuss logistics integration as a means to improve competitiveness
Representatives of the Embassy of Uruguay in Brasilia and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) met with officials from six South American countries to discuss logistics integration as key to the competitiveness of agrifood systems in the Southern Cone.
IICA and its partners are installing the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas, for the third consecutive year taking the voice of farmers to the premier global climate negotiation forum: COP29
The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change to be held this year in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital city will once again feature the pavilion of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and its private and public sector partners.
At the Borlaug Dialogue, one of the most important global conferences on food and agriculture, IICA Director General underscores the need to construct a new narrative that illustrates the true value of agriculture in the Americas
The conference, which every year brings together world leaders and experts in agricultural development and public policy in Des Moines, Iowa, is organized by the World Food Prize (WFP) Foundation, inspired by the legacy of scientist Norman Borlaug, father of the so-called Green Revolution, which multiplied agricultural production and saved millions of people from starvation.
AGRO-INNOVA, an EU and IICA project, a driver of change and hope for over 4,000 producers in the Central American Dry Corridor
After five years of implementation, the initiative, which intervened in 33 territories and impacted 109 localities in one of the world’s most vulnerable areas to climate change, presented its main achievements at a closing event.
At COP16 in Cali, IICA highlights the bioeconomy’s role as a driver of sustainable development and climate change mitigation
The Knowledge Legacy Corporation, the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, the WWF conservation organization and IICA organized a panel discussion entitled “Rethinking the Financing of the Bioeconomy.” Panel members stressed the importance of protecting and valuing natural capital, and discussed the role of the bioeconomy as a regional development model.
Carolín Leguizamón and Héctor Cristaldo, committed to strengthening small producers and the Paraguayan agroindustry, are recognized by IICA as Leaders of Rurality in the Americas
The award was presented at a ceremony held in Asunción, attended by the Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero, and the representative in Paraguay of the hemispheric organization for agricultural development and rural welfare, Gabriel Rodríguez. Also present was the former Paraguayan Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Santiago Bertoni.