The both entities join efforts and expertise with focus in projects that benefice the Amazon Region.
Brasilia, August 8, 2019 (IICA).The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) and Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) signed today Thursday (8/8), an agreement of cooperation to facilitate and strengthen both institutions in the area of common interest that benefice the Amazon Region.
The ACTO is an intergovernmental organization formatted by Eight Member Countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. The Treaty of Amazon Cooperation, established in 1978, seek to promote actions to favor of the development of the region and, at the same time, ensure the balance between the economic development and the environmental preservation.
The IICA, with its trajectory for nearly 80 years of support to the government in 34 countries of the America, seeks by means of this direct technical cooperation, to focus on four strategic objectives: improve the productivity and the competitive of the agricultural sector; leverage the agricultural contribution to the development of the territory and rural welfare; improve the agricultural training to mitigate and adapt to the climate change and make the best use of the natural resources and improve the contribution of the agriculture to the food security .
With this agreement, the IICA and the ACTO will be able to work jointly in training, production of research, technical publications and support and missions.
For that, it was agreed a period of three months to constitute a group of work that will formulate a plan of joint work that must include the search of innovative solutions and low cost ecologically technology that promote, between others, the sustainable management of the forest resources, an agriculture in harmony with the environment and an greater inclusion of the familiar agriculture to the development process.
The General Secretary of the ACTO, Alexandra Moreira López, ensured that from now on, will have a social that focus on actions in the protection and promotion of sustainable use of the biodiversity in the Amazon Region.
“I think, with this alliance, jointly between multilateral institutions, we can cooperate with our activities”
This is the way to resolve the regional questions and have multilateral effects”, affirmed the Secretary General of the ACTO, Alexandra Moreira López.
For the representative of the IICA in Brazil, Hernán Chiriboga, the new alliance reaches to reinforce the role of institute in the promotion of the agricultural development and rural welfare.
“We have to work as a team and seek synergy. This is the only way to obtain results. We have complementarities in both institutes”, stated Chiriboga.
The agreement of the signing ceremony was attended by the ambassadors and representatives of the Member Countries of the ACTO and of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil.
The work meeting between the technical team of the both institutions to star the elaboration of work plan is scheduled for next week.
Source: IICA | ACTO
