IICA's Strategy For Technical Cooperation In Food Security
Line 1: Institutional innovations for a new paradigm for technological change for production and food diversification
Objective: To improve the institutional framework for research, extension and technological innovation in order to increase food availability
Line 2: Provide institutions and services to strengthen the capacities of small and medium farmers and farming families to enter into markets
Objective: Contribute to improving the incomes of small and medium-sized farmers and family farmers to secure more efficient access to markets (value chain management)
Line 3: Assessment, monitoring and dissemination of policies and information on the status and prospects for food security
Objective: To monitor and report on the status and prospects for food security in countries of IICA
IICA and Food Security:
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IICA Publications on Food Security:
Food Security in the Americas: The Need for a New Development Model
"The time has come to re-assess the contribution made by the rural economies of our countries to integral
development. This contribution involves the current and potential production of a sustainable supply of energy and nutritious food to minimize life-style illnesses; the preservation of forests to reduce the impact of climate change; and economic activities in the agricultural sector that can provide employment and help reduce poverty.
To build a sustainable society, therefore, we need a new development model that incorporates the social, economic, technological, environmental and political dimensions of development. The current food crisis clearly shows that humanity must change course and make better use of the planet’s natural and knowledge resources."
Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Fortress at a Time of Crisis and the Engine Driving Future Development
This document is an executive summary of a publication that is the result of a process launched by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in mid- 2008. At that time, IICA invited a number of experts to an international workshop to analyze “the contribution of agriculture and the rural milieu to sustainable development and food security in the new international context,” at a time when the prices of the major commodities rose to historic levels, which posed a threat to food security in most of the countries of, especially the most vulnerable segments of their populations.
IICA Technical Journal:
COMUNIICA Online: Socioeconomic and Sectoral Statistics: Agriculture and Food Security (Sept-Dec 08 )
The material in this special edition of COMUNIICA invites reflection on agriculture, presenting the more recent statistics to which IICA has access and which the Institute considers important to share via country data sheets. These data, organized by the Institutional Modernization Unit of IICA, come from recognized international sources of agricultural information and paint a clear picture of where the agricultural sector stands vis-à-vis the challenge it faces in 2009.
Meeting on Food Security
The Fifth Ministerial Meeting, 25th- 31st October, 2009
On The Road to Jamaica 2009: "Building Capacity for Enhancing Food Security and Rural Life in the Amerias:
The Fifth Ministerial Meeting will focus on the challenges faced by the countries of the hemisphere in agriculture and rural life, food security and sustainable development, as well as the strategic required to response to those challenges including Capacity Building at the local and hemispheric level. These will be reflected in the adoption of Jamaica 2009 Hemispheric Ministerial Agreement(s) updating the AGRO 2003-2015 Plan
Visit official website for more information: On The Road to Jamaica 2009
Press Releases:
Jamaica 2009: Hemispheric Leaders to Analyze Food Security (04/08/2009)
Jamaica to serve as venue for Most Important Hemispheric meeting on Agriculture and Rural Life (03/2009)
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On the Road to Jamaica 2009 "Building capacity for enhancing Food Security and Rural Life in the Americas"