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The member countries of the Comité Ejecutivo del Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) recognized that the coordinated work of the countries of the Americas is essential to confront a food, nutrition and humanitarian crisis in the region and the world, given the current international environment, and expressed their support for collective action by the Americas to address these challenges.

Ministers and Vice Ministers of Agriculture of Latin America and the Caribbean discussed the emergency policies that their countries are implementing to mitigate the impact of increases in the price of food and the inputs needed to produce it due to the war in Eastern Europe.

The Director General of the Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) Manuel Otero, announced that it will open the doors of its professional internship program to Ukrainian women graduates in agricultural sciences who are refugees.

Coffee producer Ever Díaz, from El Salvador, will receive the “El Alma de la Ruralidad”, award, which the Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) grants to Leaders of Rurality of the Americas.