Four essential areas will be addressed in the IICA Leadership Forum. These are:
- The Challenges and Opportunities for Agriculture and Rural Life in the 21st Century
- The Dimensions of Leadership in the 21st Century
- IICA: your organization for agriculture and rural life
- The development of a national agenda
The Challenges and Opportunities for Agriculture and Rural Life in the 21st Century
The Forum will begin with a strategic conversation on today’s globalized agriculture and rural life and will include policy, production and trade issues and responses. This conversation starts with the Minister’s current vision for agricultural and rural development in his/her country. Other topics to be addressed in this conversation are:
- The importance of food and agriculture in economic development.
- The multi-sectoral role of agriculture in the 21st Century
- Opening agricultural markets Strengthening agricultural health and food safety in the Americas
- Biotechnology and agriculture: the challenges and the opportunities
- Agro-energy and agriculture: the challenges and the opportunities
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- Climate change and agricultural development
- The role of information technologies in modernizing global agriculture
- The inter-agency agenda
- The role of agri-business in economic development
The Dimensions of Leadership in the 21st Century
- The first 100 days in a new leadership role
- The Leader of the 21st Century
- Institutional modernization
IICA: Your Organization for Agriculture and Rural Development
- The Ministerial Meetings in the Context of the Summit of the Americas Process
- What is IICA? It history, structure and role in agricultural development in the hemisphere
- The Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA)
- IICA’s 2006-2010 Medium-Term Plan
Developing a national agenda
- Regional agendas and regional integration
- The concept of an agenda based on the country’s priorities
- Accountability seminars
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