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Georgetown, Guyana

June 13, 2017

National Codex Committee Stakeholders’ Information Forum

Globally, food and nutrition security are of paramount importance to many countries, Guyana being no exception. One body which is assisting in the fight to maintain food and nutrition security in Guyana is the National Codex Committee(NCC)whose mandate it is to facilitate national discussion on food safety issue and present positions on food safety issues affecting producers and consumers.

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Georgetown, Guyana

June 13, 2017

MANAGING OUR INDEPENDENCE AND CREATING NEW POSSIBILITIES

This was the theme of the recently concluded Annual General and Network Meetings of the Women Agro-processing Development Network (WADN) which has evolved after several years of agro-process being done mostly from the kitchen of our parents and grandparents and the products sold from small stands near the homesteads or directly from the kitchen door.

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Georgetown, Guyana

June 13, 2017

Cost of Production Training

The IICA Delegation in Guyana in collaboration with the New Guyana Marketing Corporation for the past few months executed Cost of Production training sessions targeting both farmers and agro processors, so that they can adequately negotiate realistic and competitive prices on the market.

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Kingston, Jamaica

June 9, 2017

​Innovations for sustainable production seek to propel the beekeepers sector

Agricultural authorities expressed their satisfaction with the Institute’s support, especially with its focus on supporting the Ministry, youth entrepreneurship and resource mobilization.

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Washington, D.C.

June 6, 2017

IICA supports the World Economic Forum’s New Vision for Agriculture to promote public private partnerships in agriculture in Latin America.

IICA’s Director General Dr. Victor Villalobos attended the 12th World Economic Forum in Latin America in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

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St. Lucia

June 1, 2017

IICA presents its contributions to the agricultural development of St. Lucia

Agricultural authorities expressed their satisfaction with the Institute’s support, especially with its focus on supporting the Ministry, youth entrepreneurship and resource mobilization.

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Castries, Saint Lucia

May 30, 2017

IICA presents its contributions to the agricultural development of Saint Lucia

Agricultural authorities expressed their satisfaction with the Institute’s support, especially with its focus on supporting the Ministry, youth entrepreneurship and resource mobilization.

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Belmopan, Belize

May 8, 2017

New Representative for the Belize Delegation

On March 24, 2017 Dr. Gabriel Rodriguez Marques a citizen of Uruguay assumed the position as our country Representative.  Dr. Rodríguez Marqués is no stranger to this Delegation since he was country representative during the period 2009 to 2010.  Dr. Rodriguez Marques was transferred to IICA Panama then to the IICA El Salvador.

 

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Belmopan, Belize

May 8, 2017

Farmer Field School in Beekeeping

Along with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ya’axche Conservation Trust (YCT) and IICA the second phase in building capacities in the farmer field school (FFS) methodology was spearheaded in Southern Belize.

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