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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 ...
Farm water: too little and too much: a tale from two islands
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 29-03-2023)
In this his/her story (HHS), we hear from two farmers from the IICA-CBF (Caribbean Biodiversity Fund) EbA (ecosystem-based adaptation) Project’s Farmers’ Caucus, Neil Gomes from Antigua and Barbuda, and Shennelle Herbert ...
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
Suelos saludables: la base de los sistemas alimentarios sostenibles en América Latina y el Caribe. Un aporte para los debates en las Américas previos a la Cumbre sobre los Sistemas Alimentarios de las Naciones Unidas 2021
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2021)
Se plantean las acciones dirigidas a mejorar la salud del suelo, ofreciendo un mayor retorno de inversión para crear y mantener sistemas agroalimentarios saludables en América Latina y el Caribe. Se plantean los agricultores ...
The Importance of Livestock Production and Animal Protein. The Western Hemisphere Perspective
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2021)
Se presentan perspectivas de expertos del Hemisferio Occidental para examinar algunos de los problemas más apremiantes que enfrenta la producción pecuaria. Se aborda la producción pecuaria y la proteína animal como esenciales ...
Mujeres, Jóvenes y la Transformación del Sistema Agroalimentario
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2021)
El presente estudio sostiene que las mujeres y los jóvenes son agentes indispensables de transformación en este proceso. A este tenor, ya desarrollan iniciativas que, si fueran conocidas, valoradas y apoyadas, podrían ...
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 ...