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  • IICA, its 34 Member States and strategic partners from the private sector will install the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas pavilion at COP28, ratifying the sector’s commitment to tackling climate change

    The pavilion at COP28 is a joint effort between IICA and its partners, aimed at generating new international partnerships to fund, accelerate or scale up the implementation of contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
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    Over one hundred women involved in agriculture and natural resource management in Costa Rica strengthened their digital and geospatial technology skills at IICA Headquarters

    Since 2019, the GeoFem: Women in Geospatial Technologies (Rally Femenino) workshops organized by IICA and its international partners have provided empowerment and training in innovation technology for more than 500 women. The most recent workshop was co-organized with SERVIR – a joint NASA and USAID initiative.
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    Over one hundred women involved in agriculture and natural resource management in Costa Rica strengthened their digital and geospatial technology skills at IICA Headquarters

    Since 2019, the GeoFem: Women in Geospatial Technologies (Rally Femenino) workshops organized by IICA and its international partners have provided empowerment and training in innovation technology for more than 500 women. The most recent workshop was co-organized with SERVIR – a joint NASA and USAID initiative.
  • Agriculture and climate action: an IICA website that will exhibit the collective work of countries in the Americas at COP28 – showcasing advances by the hemisphere’s agriculture sector in the area of sustainability

    The webpage, available at https://agroyaccionclimatica.iica.int/en/, illustrates the strategic role of the region’s agriculture sector in tackling climate change. It also presents the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas - the pavilion that IICA and its partners will host at COP28 in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to build public awareness about and highlight the role of the agrifood systems of the Americas in driving the development of climate solutions.
  • Students from San Carlos, a rural canton in Costa Rica, are declared the winners of the Microsoft-IICA Minecraft Education technological challenge

    Youngsters from the Colegio Agropecuario de San Carlos have won the competition, which was aimed at Costa Rican high school students. More than 100 youth from across the country participated.
  • International cooperation agencies meeting at IICA stress the need for a new generation of public policies to strengthen the agrifood systems of the Americas

    Authorities from the Hemisphere’s agriculture sector and experts from international organizations met at the Headquarters of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), in Costa Rica, to identify and analyze public policies to strengthen the agrifood systems of the Americas.