Annual report 2022


Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

This space combines all the elements of sustainable agriculture in a spacious and free-to-access community park, designed to promote closer engagement with the neighboring communities of the Vásquez de Coronado canton. Construction on the park began as part of the 79th anniversary celebrations of the Institute. Its park areas and gardens span 455 m² and it has the capacity to accommodate  230 people. It features a 75 m water trail, which represents a watershed. The Plaza also has planting beds representing the varied topography of the Americas, with designs symbolizing rectangular, flat, curved and terraced farms and vegetation that is representative of the countries.

1. Innovation and bioeconomy

El Salvador and Guatemala: innovative nations

+1 million of sensitized people from the hemisphere after:

2. Territorial development and family farming

3. International trade and regional integration

Promoting intraregional trade in the Caribbean

150 producers and exporters in the region received training in negotiation, pricing, branding and other key areas to boost and better capitalize on market opportunities. They also participated in the Second Caribbean Virtual Business Roundtable which generated a business intention of USD 1.2 million.

4. Agricultural climate action and sustainability

The Twenty-Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27), held in Egypt, was the setting where the Institute collaborated so that ministers and high authorities of agriculture in the Americas showed their common positions regarding the challenges of climate change. It was here that the first pavilion dedicated to the agricultural sector in the Americas was installed.

40,000 participants and 120 world leaders participated.

Other achievements in countries

5. Agricultural health, safety and agrifood quality

Caribbean Food Safety Information Portal

This platform serves as an archive of updated resources on food safety for micro and small agroprocessors in the region. It provides access to the resources of more than 250 websites, on topics such as culture and basic food safety concepts, safety throughout the supply chain, national food safety regulations, safety testing in national and regional laboratories, among other topics.

6. Digitalization of agrifood systems

Policies for agro-digitalization

7. Gender equality and youth

IICA's main alliances in 2022

Knowledge management

Observatory of Public Policies for Agrifood Systems (OPSAa)

Alliance of Agricultural Information Services (SIDALC)

This Alliance enables the public to access information, including close to 3,000,000 reference items and more than 300,000 documents. More than 25,000 queries are made to its search engines on a daily basis. It also features a direct link to the National Agricultural Library and the Agriculture Network Information Center in the United States.  

IICA, via the Center for Knowledge Management and Horizontal Cooperation Services, provides access to a wide range of manuals, tools, seminars or courses on agriculture and rural life.  

Andean region

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Caribbean region

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Central region

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North region

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