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  • New Inter-American Chair on Innovations in Tropical Agriculture and Agrifood Systems to be named after Dr. Manuel Otero, as a tribute from CATIE to IICA Director General

    The act of recognition of Manuel Otero took place during the graduation ceremony of CATIE’s Master’s Program, honoring his career of over 35 years dedicated to promoting and developing tropical and temperate agriculture in the Americas.
  • At an event organized by Uruguay’s Embassy in Brazil and IICA, South American countries discuss logistics integration as a means to improve competitiveness

    Representatives of the Embassy of Uruguay in Brasilia and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) met with officials from six South American countries to discuss logistics integration as key to the competitiveness of agrifood systems in the Southern Cone.
  • IICA and its partners are installing the Home of Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas, for the third consecutive year taking the voice of farmers to the premier global climate negotiation forum: COP29

    The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change to be held this year in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital city will once again feature the pavilion of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and its private and public sector partners.
  • At the Borlaug Dialogue, one of the most important global conferences on food and agriculture, IICA Director General underscores the need to construct a new narrative that illustrates the true value of agriculture in the Americas

    The conference, which every year brings together world leaders and experts in agricultural development and public policy in Des Moines, Iowa, is organized by the World Food Prize (WFP) Foundation, inspired by the legacy of scientist Norman Borlaug, father of the so-called Green Revolution, which multiplied agricultural production and saved millions of people from starvation.
  • AGRO-INNOVA, an EU and IICA project, a driver of change and hope for over 4,000 producers in the Central American Dry Corridor

    After five years of implementation, the initiative, which intervened in 33 territories and impacted 109 localities in one of the world’s most vulnerable areas to climate change, presented its main achievements at a closing event.
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    Carolín Leguizamón and Héctor Cristaldo, committed to strengthening small producers and the Paraguayan agroindustry, are recognized by IICA as Leaders of Rurality in the Americas

    The award was presented at a ceremony held in Asunción, attended by the Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero, and the representative in Paraguay of the hemispheric organization for agricultural development and rural welfare, Gabriel Rodríguez. Also present was the former Paraguayan Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Santiago Bertoni.