Friday, 22 July 2022 02:28

Countries of the Americas defined actions in favor of food security: IICA

Written by Evelyn Alas

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.

The event, which endorsed a call already made by the Director General of IICA at the Summit of the Americas held in june in Los Angeles, included a request to the Institute to support the food and humanitarian aid initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean, implemented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as other projects that arise with the same objective.

IICA's Executive Committee also expressed its support for raising the profile of the agricultural sector at the next Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be held in november 2022 in Egypt.

As a means of achieving this, they instructed the Institute to develop key messages for the ministers of the Americas who will participate in that meeting, which must be approved at the Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change and Agriculture, to be held in september in Costa Rica.

They also requested that a pavilion be set up at COP27 to showcase the progress, challenges, priorities and proposals of the agricultural sector in its fight against climate change, as well as the benefits that greater resilience in the sector would generate in terms of food and nutritional security, water management, poverty reduction and the reduction of land and soil degradation, among others.

The member countries of the 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.

The statement, which endorsed a call already made by the Director General of IICA at the Summit of the Americas held in june in Los Angeles, included a request to the Institute to support the food and humanitarian aid initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean, implemented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as other projects that arise with the same objective.

IICA's Executive Committee also expressed its support for raising the profile of the agricultural sector at the next Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to be held in November 2022 in Egypt.

As a means of achieving this, they instructed the Institute to develop key messages for the ministers of the Americas who will participate in that meeting, which must be approved at the Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change and Agriculture, to be held in september in Costa Rica.

They also requested that a pavilion be set up at COP27 to showcase the progress, challenges, priorities and proposals of the agricultural sector in its fight against climate change, as well as the benefits that greater resilience in the sector would generate in terms of food and nutritional security, water management, poverty reduction and the reduction of land and soil degradation, among others.