European program and IICA renews its website to share agricultural innovation
Technologies and best practices in cassava, potato, tomato and avocado, effective actions with an impact on the field, testimonies of producers and their experience in adopting innovations on their farms are some of the elements that can be found in the renovated website Regional Programme for Research and Innovation for Agricultural Value Chains (PRIICA). The portal systematises innovations and updated in four agricultural value chains information.
It is a portal web that gathers validated information on these four value chains and systematizes the actions that developed the program in Central America and Panama, during its four years of implementation. There is also data on beneficiaries, strategic partners and collaborators, especially the National Institutes of Innovation and Agricultural Research (INIA) in the six countries of Central America and Panama, which together with the program managed to bring innovations to the field and contribute to food security of small farmers in the region.
The PRIICA is executed in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the European Union (EU). With funds amounting to € 5.6 million, the initiative seeks to increase food availability and access to them, and generate international public goods.
“The relaunch of the site allows to present the actions of the program and establish contacts that facilitate the creation of partnerships and share knowledge with stakeholders in the agricultural sector,” said the specialist knowledge management PRIICA, Kathya Lines.
The portal can also find advanced search engine on the four string products: cassava, potato, tomato and avocado, which allows access to all technical and scientific information published internationally.
In addition, information systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to support research processes and explanatory videos describing new practices developed by technicians and producers are presented.
Source: IICA
