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  • Argentina’s Secretary of Agriculture, Fernando Vilella, commends IICA for its cooperation in support of the development of the bioeconomy throughout the continent

    Vilella said his country intended to ask IICA and the Latin American Bioeconomy Network, which was established in 2023, to help the region focus on the conceptualization of the bioeconomy in response to Brazil’s proposal that the G20 address the issue in 2024.
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    The Brazilian Minister of Agricultural Development, Paulo Teixeira, sees IICA playing a critical role at G20, by ensuring that the voice of family farmers is heard

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    The Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture of Brazil, Paulo Teixeira (second in the photograph), expressed that IICA has a strong relationship with family farming in the Americas through its technical cooperation projects.
  • The Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero, conferring the title on prestigious German scientist, Joachim von Braun.

    German scientist Joachim von Braun is the latest IICA Goodwill Ambassador, for his contributions to the science-based transformation of agrifood systems and development of the bioeconomy

    Prestigious German scientist, Joachim von Braun, has been named a Goodwill Ambassador for the Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), in recognition of his global efforts to create more sustainable and inclusive agrifood systems and to build bridges between Latin America and the rest of the world.
  • The German Minister of Agriculture and Food and the Director General of IICA move forward in defining a joint Europe-Americas agenda for production transformation, focusing on environmental protection

    In the meeting, Özdemir y Otero agreed that, given its presence in the 34 countries of the Americas and its technical cooperation for agriculture and rural development in the hemisphere, IICA should serve as a nexus for joint work between the two regions.
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    At COP28, Ministers of Agriculture of Mercosur and Chile analyze the European Green Deal, strengthen ties with Australia and express concern about equine viruses in the Southern Cone

    The ministers expressed concern about the circulation in Argentina and Uruguay of a new pathology that has been affecting horses, which is also a zoonosis and that can affect people.
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    At COP28, the world’s major environmental forum, the governments and private sector of the Americas showcased their joint efforts to develop a more productive and low-carbon agriculture sector

    At the event, details were given of the progress of the Living Soils Initiative in the Americas, carried out by IICA together with the scientist Rattan Lal, considered the world's leading authority on the subject and one of the speakers at this event.