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Rural leaders of the Americas call for unified action and urge governments to focus on territories and communities, given the key role they play in food security, sustainability, and job creation
At a meeting organized by IICA in Costa Rica, more than 40 Leaders of Rurality from 21 countries of the Americas promote collective action and call for their contributions to be prioritized and recognized.
Costa Rican high school students, creators of a module for the promotion and dissemination of silvopastoral goat farming, recognized by IICA as Leaders of Rurality of the Americas
This initiative promotes agricultural education and training among young people and producers in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, selling goat milk-based products in their communities.
Students from San Carlos, a rural canton in Costa Rica, are declared the winners of the Microsoft-IICA Minecraft Education technological challenge
Youngsters from the Colegio Agropecuario de San Carlos have won the competition, which was aimed at Costa Rican high school students. More than 100 youth from across the country participated.
Smallholder farmers in the Central American Dry Corridor receive training from IICA and EU to tackle climate change challenges
Work with small and medium-scale farmers is essential for guaranteeing the availability of and access to food in their plots and homes given their high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change due to geographic location.
In Costa Rica, European Union and IICA inaugurate stand that demonstrates how satellite-based applications can benefit agriculture in the Americas
The new exhibit was inaugurated at the Interpretive Center for Tomorrow’s Agriculture (CIMAG) at IICA Headquarters in Costa Rica – a public space that highlights the ways in which digital technologies are transforming agriculture in the hemisphere.
Over one hundred rural youth graduated from the School of Agricultural Leaders co-founded by Costa Rica’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and IICA
The training program included three modules: digital agriculture, agricultural resilience and entrepreneurship. The participants were students from ten professional technical schools and from the local livestock association – Cámara de Ganaderos Unidos del Caribe.