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Project: Evaluation of Water Productivity Changes in the Southern Cone Fontagro Thanks the Following Organizations for Their Collaboration: Chile’s Agricultural Research Institute Uruguay’s National Agricultural Research Institute Argentina’s National Agricultural Technology Institute Bolivia’s Universidad Mayor De San Andrés The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas in Syria. Sponsored by: Cooperative Program […]
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2015 ECUADOR POTATO- FONTAGRO FINAL-HD from FONTAGRO on Vimeo. Project: Technological Innovations and Differential Markets for Native Potato Producers Fontagro Thanks the Following Organizations for Their Collaboration: Ecuador’s National Agricultural Research Institute International Potato Center Rural Agribusiness Program for Latin America and the Caribbean Cooperative Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer Program for the Andean […]
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2015 PANAMA RICE- FONTAGRO FINAL-HD from FONTAGRO on Vimeo. PROJECT: RICE PESTS: A NEW CHALLENGE FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN RICE PRODUCERS FONTAGRO THANKS THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS FOR THEIR COLLABORATION: PANAMA’S AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE NICARAGUA’S AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE COSTA RICA’S NEW MILLENNIUM SEEDS CORPORATION COSTA RICA’S NATIONAL RICE ASSOCIATION THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE, […]
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Within the framework of INVEST CARIBBEAN 2015 conference, Dr. Henríquez emphasized the challenges and opportunities within the agricultural sector in the Caribbean and the need to promote research and capacity development in the region to help small producers. (Washington D.C., November 19th, 2015). FONTAGRO was presented at the Conference “INVEST CARIBBEAN 2015”, organized within the […]
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Creating new ways to provide technical assistance to family farmers, promoting capacity building for national research institutes, and establishing partnerships with the private sector were some of the options presented to boost agricultural innovation and technology development. (Washington, D.C., November 13, 2015) FONTAGRO, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and EMBRAPA co-organized the […]
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The winning projects of the 2015 Call for Proposals seek to introduce technological innovations to mitigate the impact of drought in Central America and strengthen crops and livestock systems in the Southern Cone, aiming at improving natural resources management in farming families. (Washington, D.C., November 3, 2015) Today FONTAGRO announced the winning projects of […]
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The meeting was held in Almería, in the context of the Fourteenth Ibero-American System Meeting of INIAs (national agricultural research and innovation institutes), during which intensive dairy and horticulture, beekeeping, and knowledge management projects were approved. (Washington, D.C., October 23, 2015) On October 21 through 23 FONTAGRO’s Board of Directors held its Nineteenth Annual […]
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