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#FONTAGROProject: Implementation of the Intensive Rice System Project

The rice production has a strategic importance for the food security of the Dominican people. This is why the country, as a way of seeking alternatives and management and production mechanisms to achieve higher levels of production with the use of less input, has been, since 2015, supporting the development of the project “Growing more […]

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FONTAGRO announces its 2017 Call for Proposals: Sustainable Intensification of Family Agriculture in Response to Climate Change

The call for proposals will fund up to $1.2 million in projects to support innovations that meet growing food demand without affecting natural resources.   Photo: Gerson Vargas. FONTAGRO’s 2016 Photo Competition (Washington, D.C., April 17, 2017) Today FONTAGRO announced the launch of its 2017 Call for Proposals on “Innovations for the sustainable intensification of […]

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FONTAGRO MEETS WITH HONDURAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO PROGRAM ACTIVITIES IN HONDURAS

During the mission, DICTA and IHCAFE signed an agreement aimed at carrying out a regional project to combat coffee berry borer insects. Photo: Engineer Armando Bustillo, President of FONTAGRO; Hugo Li Pun, PhD, FONTAGRO’s Executive Secretary; and Engineer Jacobo Paz Boden, Honduras’ Minister of Agriculture (Tegucigalpa, February 12, 2017) Officials from FONTAGRO, a cooperation mechanism among […]

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CIAT’S Director General Visits FONTAGRO

Joint collaboration activities between CIAT and FONTAGRO were analyzed during the visit. Rubén Echeverría, PhD, Director General of CIAT (Washington, D.C., January 24, 2017) The Director General of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Rubén Echeverría, PhD, visited FONTAGRO’s offices within the framework of a set of meetings he had in Washington, D.C. Several […]

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Researchers from Venezuela Build Their Capacities for Drafting Agricultural Research Project Proposals

Researchers paying attention to the presentation at Venezuela’s INIA (Washington, D.C., December 5, 2016) On December 1 and 2, 2016, FONTAGRO organized an in-person course in Venezuela aimed at drafting case proposals and final proposals that prove competitive when participating in project financing competitions. This training was carried out at the facilities of Venezuela’s National […]

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