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    • Rural women, strategic to manage risk in climate change

    Incorporate the gender perspective is strategic in addressing food and nutrition security, climate change and risk management, because it allows us to contemplate differently the needs and interests of women and men, to propose realistic solutions and reduce gaps development and progress towards gender equality and equity. These are the conclusions of a web seminar IICA.

    The Panama Canal transit will be limited the effects of El Niño

    The Canal Authority will limit Panamáinformó from April 18 the draft of vessels transiting the waterway. The measure is due to the drought caused by El Niño, which maintains extremely low levels in the two artificial lakes that feed the canal, lakes Gatun and Alhajuela.

    Peru: Aquaculture generated more than 100,000 jobs in 2015

    This sector is a major source of opportunities and development. That aquaculture has become in our country, according to figures from Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Production (Produce), Juan Carlos Requejo, has created more than 102,000 jobs over the past year.

    Uruguay: The use of ethion is suspended after meat detected by US

    The Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries of Uruguay (MGAP) announced the temporary suspension of the pesticide and antiparasitic etión livestock use, following the detection of traces of this substance by US authorities on meat shipments destined for that country.

    Cuba: Obama brings a new phase of relations looms

    The US president, Barack Obama, has already landed in Havana. It is a historic official visit. It´s almost 90 years ago that a leader of that country was not above the island. The event occurs after deciding both governments restore diplomatic relations after more than 50 years of break.

    Brazil: Record of grain harvest again

    The Latin American country will produce 210 million tons of grain in the 2015-2016 period. In the previous period (2014-2015) Brazil set a new record with 209.5 million grains. Soybeans will again its flagship product.

    Peru lifts up trade barriers to US beef

    The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation establishes specific health requirements mandatory for imports of meat and edible offal chilled or frozen bovine compliance from the United States (US).

    Macri wants to turn Argentina in the world supermarket

    The most professionalized exhibition of Argentine agroindustrial sector witnessed a historic landmark, no doubt testimonial. The presence of the president of the nation for the first time in Expoagro staged changing agricultural policy. The previous government had decided to interventionism and control of exports of agricultural products. Instead, Macri Administration is implementing and stimulating measures such as the reduction of withholding tax, currency devaluation and removes obstacles to sell more across borders. Obama's visit to the country is another opportunity to reopen or improve access to the US market for some of its productions.

    ALC looking for improving farming practices to raise yields

    Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) should apply good practices for food production, knowledge-based methods, appropriate use of technology and sustainable management of natural resources, said the general director of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation agriculture (IICA), Victor M. Villalobos. Demand for food is increasing and it is estimated that world population will reach 9 billion people by 2050.

    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.