The ministers of agriculture also charged the Director General with organizing general or subregional meetings with donors ... ideas and proposals for action aimed at giving agriculture a new role in economic development strategies .

External support From the standpoint of external support , the plan of action should include three elements : a ) A ... ideas and proposals , in order to allow for ample consensus on the role to be played by the agriculture sector in ...

The consensus should include not only the different economic sectors of the countries , but also agencies and countries ... The specific obejctives are : To foster an understanding of general problems of agricultural development and ...

Martín E. Piñeiro , IICA's Director General , and Felipe González , President of the Government of Spain , agreed to promote the new strategies for agricultural development emerging from the Tenth ICMA .

Instead , IICA must launch a participatory process of generating new ideas and proposals and publicizing them . This is the way to build a consensus on the role the agricultural sector can play in the economic and social development .

FOREWORD It is an honor for the Inter - American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture ( IICA ) to publish this ... First , they contribute to the ideas and proposals for action in this field which became part of the Plan of the Plan ...

As a necessary support mechanism , institutions will take on a prominent role in ensuring that sector activities are more ... Section II describes the political background , main characteristics of the region's economic structure and ...

... with the general aspects of regional economic development . will allow for discussion of the agricultural strategy at ... process and specific discussion of the role of the agricultural sector in the development of the region .

Germane to this task has been the development of position papers with ideas , proposals and alternative courses of action , considered important instruments to elaborate a strategy for the reactivation of the agricultural sector in LAC ...

( 6 ) POLICY OPTIONS AND AREAS OF ACTION : COMPLEMENTARY PROPOSALS INTRODUCTION This section discusses policy options in the strategy for reactivation of agriculture that are complementary to those raised in CARICOM and OECS initiatives ...