IICA & USAID discuss challenges in the LAC Region 

Washington, DC, July 22, 2010 –   The IICA Office in the United States welcomed future USAID Foreign Service officers from USAID's Development Learning Initiative (DLI). This group visited the IICA Office in Washington where the state of agriculture and the challenges faced within the Hemisphere were discussed.  The officers will be relocating to their assigned countries in the coming weeks.  Countries include Peru, Nicaragua, Brazil, Honduras, Haiti and Guatemala.’

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          The Agriculture Sector is Critical in Rebuilding Haiti
     ‘Haiti cannot prosper without a vibrant agriculture economy.’ – David C. Hatch, IICA 

Washington, DC, July 21, 2010 – “There is no economic sector more important to Haiti than agriculture.” Those were the words echoed by David C. Hatch, Associate Deputy Director General and Representative in the United States of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) before members of the Group of Friends of Haiti of the Organization of American States (OAS) today. The group comprised of representatives from the OAS Member countries and observer countries is chaired by OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert R. Ramdin. + Related Press Release