The conference aims to promote sustainable consumption and production as a means to improve quality of life.
Experiences in Central America in terms of production, processing, marketing and research of organic products will be shared and documented.
"Experts from Honduras, Costa Rica and Bolivia, some of them linked to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture will participate in the conference", noted an article in Latribuna.hn
Source: latribuna.hn
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January 2012
The Salvadoran government will promote organic production of grain in order to improve the quality of life of farmers.
Guillermo Lopez, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, MAG, stressed that their commitment as a government is to "produce organically . It is families who work in the fields and we do not want children to work with poisons, but biological products that are made integrally . "
November 2011
In January, 1600 hectares of cotton will be grown, the first stage of a project to reinvigorate the entire textile industry chain.
The availability of local supplies of raw materials could lead to a resumption of companies such as Cone Denim and the arrival of more companies.
May 2010
The XXI Central American and Caribbean Poultry Congress will take place in San José, from June 16 to 18th.
Organized by the Central American - Caribbean Federation of Poultry Farmers, the event will feature 125 exhibitors and is expected to attract 900 visitors.
“The congress aims to become a gateway for farmers to embrace XXI century poultry farming, which is based on maximizing production efficiency, implementing production and bio-security policies, and using and transferring new poultry technologies”, reported Elfinanciero.com.
March 2011
Dominican Republic and Central America have agreed to unify the regulations governing organic agriculture.
The policies are based on rules by Codex Alimentarius, created in 1963 by FAO and the WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as practices under the joint FAO / WHO Food Standard Program.
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