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Countries of the Americas defined actions to enhance food security and agricultural resilience
The members of the Executive Committee reiterated the importance of innovation, science and technology to make agrifood systems of the Americas more productive, sustainable and inclusive, and urged the Institute’s member countries to continue strengthening their capabilities in these areas and their linkages with the agriculture sector.
Ministers of Africa and the Americas to hold first summit to enhance cooperation on agrifood issues
The meeting, to be held on 27, 28 and 29 July in Costa Rica, will outline the role of Africa and the Americas in global food and environmental security. It will provide opportunities for bi-regional cooperation in science, technology and innovation, with a view to building resilient and sustainable food systems.
Cooperative member Chito Quintero, a role model for peasant and indigenous communities in Panama, recognized by IICA as a “Leader of Rurality”
Quintero, who forms part of the Ngäbe-Buglé indigenous community, lost his mother at the age of 6 and had to work from an early age to support his siblings. He became a union leader shortly after becoming a banana farmer, and in 1991, he co-founded the banana cooperative Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Bananera del Atlántico (COOBANA), which currently has 220 members and more than 600 workers.
Ambassadors from Latin America to Egypt and Director General of IICA agree: as part of the solution to climate change, agriculture must be key player at COP 27
The virtual dialogue also included a detailed analysis of the economic and social impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean of disruptions in the global food, energy and fertilizer markets.
Female Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas advise that food security will only be possible with greater female participation in scientific research
At the II Forum of Female Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Agriculture and Other High-level Officials of the areas of agriculture, science and technology of the countries of the Americas, organized by IICA in collaboration with the government of Honduras, political authorities and prestigious scientists from across the hemisphere staged a high-level debate on “The new frontier of knowledge and the importance of the role of women in science”.
Agricultural attachés to the European Union and the IICA Director General stress that the Americas has a duty to maintain global food security amidst the current crisis
Agricultural attaches of the Americas to the European Union (EU), based in Brussels, Belgium, and Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA, engaged in a virtual dialogue organized by the Argentine Embassy in the EU. They discussed strategies and courses of action to address the current spike in food and energy prices and the crisis in the chemical fertilizer market.