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Microsoft and IICA launch Minecraft-based technology challenge for high school students in Costa Rica
Registration is already open for the challenge, which seeks to foster digital and soft skills development among young people for application in agriculture.IICA attends massive congress of corn and sorghum farmers in Argentina, where farmers are hailing the bioeconomy as an extraordinary opportunity for development
Approximately 2,000 persons attended the event, including producers, researchers and various stakeholders from the agrifood value chain.At IICA, during Digital Agriculture Week, countries in the Americas shared their strategies for promoting innovation and the use of new technologies in rural areas
During the panel discussion on “Agrifood Digitization: Initiatives and public policies in countries in the Americas,” which took place during the second edition of Digital Agriculture Week, representatives of various governments gave details of the programs they are implementing across the continent.At IICA, during Digital Agriculture Week, countries in the Americas shared their strategies for promoting innovation and the use of new technologies in rural areas
During the panel discussion on “Agrifood Digitization: Initiatives and public policies in countries in the Americas,” which took place during the second edition of Digital Agriculture Week, representatives of various governments gave details of the programs they are implementing across the continent.Digital Agriculture week opened with an appeal to place new technologies in the hands of all players in the Latin American and Caribbean rural sector
Digital Agriculture Week is a discussion forum, but even more so a forum for collective action, aiming to spur dynamic and inclusive agrifood digitalization. It is part of a series of activities on priority areas in agrifood system transformation, which IICA is promoting to create a hemispheric partnership for food security and sustainable development.Fifteen AgTechs offering digital agriculture solutions for the Americas will attend Digital Agriculture Week 2023 in Costa Rica
The winning companies were chosen from a field of 70 applicants. The event will adopt a hybrid—in-person and virtual—format.