Programs And Priorities
PROGRAMS
To
provide advisory
services towards the creation of an
enabling environment to support and strengthen trade policy
advocacy, enhance the Region's effective participation in free trade
negotiation, specifically the WTO and FTAA Negotiations, and to facilitate the
integration of agriculture and other economic sectors into the national and
global economies.
Science, Technology and Natural Resources
To facilitate the transformation of
public and private sector research institutions, increase access to and management of productivity and quality-enhancing technologies and promote the
rational and competitive management of the natural resource base.
Agricultural
Health and Food Safety
To support efforts of Member States aimed at protecting human, animal and plant health, facilitating trade and ensuring safe food supplies.
To undertake institutional strengthening and networking so as to facilitate the modernization agribusiness in the rural mileau and to improve the economic conditions of small and medium-scale producers and rural microenterprises.
Promote
and facilitate the regional and inter-American dialogue on the integration
of education; enhance the
effectiveness, quality and relevance of education and training for human
resources in the fields of agriculture and rural development; and train
personnel in the public and
private sectors in topics that are of strategic importance for the development
of competitive agriculture.
The
advent of the market globalisation and the modernisation of agriculture in
developing countries to prepare them to be more competitive require that farmers
and entrepreneurs in this sector be trained adequately to utilise the
information they need to develop their enterprise.
Priorities
 | Improving the viability ( competitive ,equitable and sustainable) of agricommercial chains. |
| Promote and support the empowerment of rural communities. |
| Development of human Resources base( within and outside IICA ) necessary to facilitate sustainable development of agriculture and rural communities. |
| Procurement of external resources to facilitate implementation of cooperation services. |
| Improve the understanding of strategic (critical) Issues impacting on national and regional agriculture (with special consideration for rural-urban balance and the hemispheric -global context. |
| Consolidate the alliance for sustainable development of agriculture and the rural milieu in the wider Caribbean. |
