“How are we to feed such a huge global population?” That was the question that the Director General of IICA, Víctor M. Villalobos, put to his audience in the Senate. His answer? “Innovation. In other words, we need to do things differently and better than we have been doing them for the last four decades.”

The Director General was a special guest at the forum “The kind of country we want and the countryside’s role in building it.”

IICA presented the results of the recent Meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas to the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG), which is meeting in Washington, D.C.

Representatives of the 34 Member States that make up the SIRG are meeting to prepare the text that the leaders of the hemisphere will sign at the Sixth Summit of the Americas (Colombia, April 2012).