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Regenerative agriculture has the potential to improve soils, manage water more efficiently, and reduce climate vulnerability: IICA presents the options available to high-level State of Colorado officials
Ibrahim presented the advances achieved by IICA with regenerative agriculture, and shared with the visitors the results of the first Meeting of Leaders of Rurality of the Americas. Held by the Institute in San José in April 2024, it brought together more than 40 leaders from all parts of the continent who make a key contribution to the promotion of sustainable landscapes.
Africa and the Americas seal partnership to restore soils, under an unprecedented biregional initiative led by AGRA and IICA
Participating in the launch event were Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and current Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); Rattan Lal, recipient of the 2020 World Food Prize; Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA; as well as ministers of Agriculture of several African countries, AGRA authorities, private sector representatives, and other senior agricultural officials of the Americas and Africa.
FAO, ECLAC, WFP and IICA warn that failure to eradicate hunger and malnutrition has a higher cost than solutions
According to a new special report by the agencies, the cost of inaction on hunger and food insecurity represents an average of 6.4% of the GDP of the countries studied.
IICA Director General signs agreement with African agricultural research center FARA and highlights the importance of strengthening collaborative work between the Americas and Africa in digital agriculture, the bioeconomy and climate resilience
IICA and FARA, Africa’s principal agricultural research forum, signed an agreement on joint work that will foster closer links between the agricultural authorities of that continent and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Make sustainable development processes in rural territories a priority focus area: meeting of leaders organized by IICA concludes with a call to governments and societies
At the meeting, the leaders had numerous opportunities to talk about their everyday work environment and pinpoint common aspects shared with fellow honorees.
Cooperativism is the gateway for small rural producers to access markets and the key to transforming realities in rural areas of the Americas
This proposal was made by the former Minister of Agriculture of Brazil Roberto Rodrigues, one of the leading experts in cooperativism, who addressed more than 40 authorities from 21 countries of all regions of the Americas, as part of the First Meeting of Leaders of Rurality of the Americas convened by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).