Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
July 9, 2025
At the start of an official visit to the country, the IICA Director General met separately in Santo Domingo with Minister of Agriculture, Limber Cruz, and Deputy Minister of Multilateral Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rubén Silié, with whom he discussed IICA’s main technical cooperation areas in the Dominican Republic, most notably joint work to combat and eradicate African Swine Fever (ASF) and other biosecurity issues, and contributions in various areas towards innovation, digitalization and the resilience of the local agriculture sector.
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San Jose and Turrialba, Costa Rica
July 7, 2025
More than eighty public and private sector representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean held discussions with European Union officials on how to foster more sustainable livestock production systems, during a working meeting jointly organized by the EU’s AL-INVEST Verde program and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).
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San José, Costa Rica
July 4, 2025
This document summarizes the work carried out during the first year of operation of the Sustainable Cattle Farming Platform of the Americas. This is a collaborative space managed jointly by IICA and the IDB whose mission is to contribute to information sharing, collaboration, and the generation and dissemination of knowledge on the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of livestock production systems that coexist in the different regions of the Americas.
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San José, Costa Rica
July 3, 2025
Officers of IICA’s Community Outreach Association, APC, handed over tools and guides to the “República de Paraguay” school, for the purpose of establishing a productive garden.
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San José, Costa Rica
July 3, 2025
During the discussion, participants emphasized the need for the integration of AI to be an inclusive process, with special attention given to small-scale and family farmers. It was also stressed that AI should not be seen as an end in itself, but rather as a means to transform agriculture with a focus on value chains.
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Ribeirao Preto, Brasil
July 1, 2025
IFAMA 2025 concluded with a call to promote policies and strategies that advance technologies to conserve resources, increase productivity, and protect the environment.
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San Jose, Costa Rica
June 30, 2025
The competition featured 39 teams and enabled young participants to gain skills in robotics, data science, and emerging technologies, while contributing through their initiatives to the sustainability and modernization of the agri-food sector.
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Ribeirao Preto, Brasil
June 27, 2025
The Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero, participated in Brazil in one of the largest global conferences in the agricultural sector, IFAMA, where he emphasized the need to build a new narrative highlighting the essential role of agriculture in the Americas as part of the solution to the challenges facing humanity.
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Montreal, Canadá
June 26, 2025
The Pan American Coalition on Liquid Biofuels (CPBIO) had a prominent role at the Aviation Climate Week of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), held in Montreal (Canada), with the participation of leading actors in the sector who discussed the latest developments in environmental matters.
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