Tom Vilsack, former United States Secretary of Agriculture; Rick Smith, Chairman of the Global Dairy Platform; and Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, underscored the role of the industry in ensuring safe food, nutrition and the socio-economic development of the hemisphere.
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Computer and agricultural engineering students won a hackathon organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Ecuador, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), technology company SAP, Cenfotec University, Syngenta and Club AgTech.
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SEGIB, IICA and 21 countries analyzed initiatives aimed at responding to the crisis generated by Covid-19 in the agriculture and rural sectors, in an effort to strengthen the role of cooperation in mitigating the effects of the pandemic.
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The University of California, Berkeley Professor, a world-renowned authority on the bioeconomy, engaged in an online discussion with the Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero, in which he emphasized the potential of Latin America and the Caribbean,
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The Secretary General of the Italo-Latin American Institute, Antonella Cavallari, and the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Gabriela Cuevas, participated in a dialogue with the Director General of IICA, with a view to identifying solutions to address the impact of the pandemic on food security.
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Despite the limitations imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, technical specialists have assisted producers in identifying farm needs and preparing their own fertilizer.
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Jens Mesa, Executive President of Colombia’s FEDEPALMA, and Hugo Sigman, CEO of the Grupo Insud in Argentina, participated in an IICA session to discuss how to create an enabling environment to increase the competitiveness of Latin American companies.
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The gallery, which is available on IICA’s website, features paintings that depict different realities of rural areas in the Americas.
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This was announced by Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, at a ceremony in which the 2019 Nobel Prize winner for Economics was named an IICA Goodwill Ambassador. The focus will be family farming.
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