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On International Women’s Day, IICA launches virtual entrepreneurship course for rural women
Registration will begin on March 8, and 45 women from Andean countries will be selected to participate in the training course as of March 22.
IICA launches second edition of Digital Agriculture Week with special invitation to AgTechs in Latin America and the Caribbean
The event will be held from 29 May to 1 June with a hybrid format. The Institute’s initiative is supported by Microsoft, Bayer, The Yield Lab, IFAD and CAF.
With its new State Agri-food Policy, Panama seeks to transform its economy to incorporate food production as a driving force for growth and development and to safeguard its future, Minister Salcedo claims
These were the words of Carlos Augusto Salcedo, the Minister Counselor for Agricultural Affairs of the President’s Office of Panama, who gave an interview on the Agro América program broadcast by the Brazilian TV channel AgroMais.
The STDF and IICA launch project to promote reduced pesticide residue in agricultural exports from 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries, and to facilitate international trade
The three-year project will be financed by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) and implemented by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
IICA joins farmers from 30 countries, meeting in Argentina to discuss how to strengthen the joint agenda for sustainable agricultural production
The discussions took place at a meeting of the Global Farmer Network – an international organization whose members are farmers representing a vast array of production scenarios. The participants visited production facilities, biotechnology companies and trading hubs; and attended talks by experts, with a focus on building increasingly resilient agrifood systems that are able to satisfy the global demand for high-quality food, while reducing the depletion of natural resources.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines pins its hopes on the increasingly popular and highly nutritious vegetable, dasheen, as a potential driver of rural development and rural production capacity
Taro, also known as malanga in some Latin American countries, has been key lately to diversify the agriculture of this island country.