Costa Rica and IICA organize the Meeting of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2011, in which countries will be challenged to modernize their innovation systems.
San Jose, Costa Rica, October 7, 2011 (IICA). To enable farmers in the Americas to increase their production, despite their limited quantity of natural resources, and to do it with quality, health and safety, countries must strengthen their national innovation systems and transmit that knowledge to agricultural farms.
In addition to these challenges, small and medium-scale producers must transform their activities into businesses that generate economic and social well-being for rural territories, goals that can also be promoted through technological innovation.
With these prioritary objectives on the agenda, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Costa Rica (MAG) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) outlined the details of the Meeting of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2011, to be held in San Jose, on October 19-21.
Laura Chinchilla, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Gloria Abraham, Minister of the MAG and Victor Villalobos, Director General of IICA, will participate in the inaugural ceremony of the Meeting.
Prabhu Pingali, Deputy Director of Agricultural Development Policy and Statistics of the “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation”, will give the keynote address. One of the strategic axes of this international organization is cooperation on agriculture as a means of overcoming poverty. Its approach has been aimed at the Asian and African regions.
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