Participants of FORAGRO’s Meeting
Washington, D.C., November 21, 2016.– On November 16 and 17, 2016, a meeting of the Board of Executive Directors of the Forum for the Americas on Agricultural Research and Technology Development (FORAGRO) took place in Costa Rica. The purpose of the meeting, which was hosted by the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), was to discuss a proposal to reorganize the forum.
FONTAGRO has been supporting the proposal to restructure FORAGRO since 2015. In this meeting FONTAGRO was represented by its President, Engineer Armando Bustillo, and its Executive Secretary, Hugo Li Pun, PhD.
During the meeting, the proposal to restructure the forum—including its governance, membership, and possible funding and financing mechanisms—and the idea to request support from the Inter-American Board of Agriculture (IABA) were accepted.
For more information (in Spanish), visit the links below:
https://fontagro.minimalart.info/es/publicaciones/prensa/foro-hemisferico-foragro-debate-tendencias-nuevas-formas-de-trabajo-y-mecanismos-financiero/
For further information, please go to fontagro@iadb.org
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About FONTAGRO
FONTAGRO is a unique regional cooperation mechanism that promotes family farming innovation, competitiveness, and food security. It was established in 1998 and it includes fifteen member countries that have contributed a capital of some $100 million. FONTAGRO is sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). Its Technical Administrative Secretariat is based at IDB headquarters in Washington, D.C. FONTAGRO has co-financed more than 100 projects and initiatives in its member countries for an approximate amount of $88.7 million, including contributions from other sources of funding and executing agencies. Its member countries are Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Contact Information:
Carina Carrasco
Communications
Phone Number: +1202 623 3038.
Email: ccarrasco@iadb.org
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