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A Threat to Global Food Security
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 21-04-2023)
South America is facing its worst drought in a century due to the La Niña phenomenon that started in 2020. The most affected countries are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, which are major producers of food and ...
Co-Innovating for more sustainable, climate responsive rice production in Chile
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 09-05-2023)
Over 200 people involved in the rice value chain participated in field days to observe research efforts and discuss the challenges and potential solutions to economically viable and more sustainable production. INIA has ...
Agri Investment Forum and Expo II and Role of Oil and Gas Revenues
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 24-10-2022)
En agosto del 2022, Trinidad y Tobago presidió la actividad Agri Investment Forum and Expo II (AIFEII): Transforming Agriculture through Innovation and Investment, en la que se confirmó la importancia de las actividades ...
Advancing agricultural trade reforms: Latin American contributions to the multilateral trading system
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 08-08-2023)
It discusses the region's progress in agricultural trade reforms and its contributions to the multilateral trade system. It includes information about the region's agricultural proposals on seven negotiation topics: internal ...
COP27 Growing Roles for Agriculture and Food Security
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 06-12-2022)
Agriculture has not had a significant presence in the national and international climate processes. Yet as COP27 ended there was a strong push by many public, private and civil society actors for agriculture to have a ...
Ukraine one year later: Impacts on global food security
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 27-01-2023)
The outbreak of war between two of the world’s key agricultural producers jeopardized more than a third of world wheat trade, 17% of world maize trade, and almost 75% of world sunflower oil trade. Within a week of the ...
It’s just becoming such a burden on us in the community
(Instituto Interamericano de Ciencias Agrícolas (IICA), 03-02-2023)
Benjamin shares his experiences, which many residents in several rural communities across the Caribbean can relate to, living with the real, not projected impacts of climate change. Climate change impacts are threatening ...
After COP27 what next for SIDS and NbS?
(Instituto Interamericano de Ciencias Agrícolas (IICA), 01-02-2023)
Identify some questions with to Dr. Chaney St. Martin, where the answers focus on the current state of climate change and how to take the issue through COP27
Innovative research to achieve sustainable development in a resource abundant economy minimising the resource curse
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 21-11-2022)
La investigación puede convertirse en una oportunidad de desarrollo sostenible de los sectores productivos de Guyana, impactando aspectos sociales, económicos, ambientales e institucionales, por medio de la mejora productiva, ...
Thinking Beyond Field to Fork
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 20-12-2022)
Farmers make management decisions at every step of the crop’s production process, from tilling land to prepare for planting, to managing a field after harvest, and every decision impacts sustainability. As the cost to ...