Issue : Facilitating Agricultural Development in Suriname Critical issues which need to be addressed include a clear ... of the preparedness of the agrifood sector to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century .

Issue: Facilitating Agricultural Development in Suriname Critical issues which need to be addressed include a clear ... of the preparedness of the agri- food sector to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century.

Along these lines, the main article in the first issue of for 2009 “Food Security in the Americas – the urgent need for a new model for development in the 21st century” by Chelston W.D. Brathwaite, Director General of IICA, ...

In this instance , it is important to realize that an awareness of the ills of watershed degradation is not a recent development but that in the early part of this century the authorities saw the necessity of appointing a Soil ...

Partnership is listed as the last of the eight Millennium Development Goals ; a clear recognition that only by ... to use IICA as a multilateral forum for dialogue , training and information on pressing rural and agricultural issues .

This does not imply that there is no room for improvement but it does imply that there is renewed hope that our Institute can make a significant difference and a contribution to the agriculture development programs of our member ...

They also recognized the urgent need to develop the enormous potential in the region to create prosperity in the countryside in a manner compatible with sustainable development . More recently , the ministers of agriculture met in ...

efforts to reposition agriculture and rural life in this hemisphere . We also recognize the key role you played at crucial moments in the process to prepare for this historic summit . We consider the Summit to be of historic importance ...

and rural life in the Americas in the 21st century 49 Fora for key stakeholders in agriculture and rural life ... The first, he said, was the urgent need to link the hemispheric and national levels by building a renewed institutional ...

They are also consistent with the issues highlighted by the Government in its National Development Plan and Agricultural Sector Policies . Both the country and the Institute are aware of the urgent need to implement concrete projects in ...