This afternoon we visited with the IICA - Pan American Institute of Cooperation for Agriculture. The IICA is truly an amazing organzation that foster collaboration with multiple nations (34 including the US) to promote agriculture in the Americas. They are working on a tremendous number of exciting and important programs with defining sustainability, innovation, technology, plant safety and security and trade policy. They are looking to better the future, perception and awarenss for agriculture. The office in Uruguay offers training and collaboration for farmers. They see tremendous development potential in Uruguay. Their concerns focus around bringing new farmers into agriculture as their farming population is aging and the next generation does not stay in the rural areas because of a shortage of infastructure and social aspects. We received very important prospectives from the 4 leaders we met with at IICA (all of whom have moved to Uruguay from Brazil or Argentina (one via Washington DC as the Agricultural Attache for 15 years). This is an organization that we should all learn more about!
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