THE MARRAKESH DECISION AND FOOD SECURITY:
CONTRIBUTION OF THE INTER‑AMERICAN INSTITUTE
FOR COOPERATION ON AGRICULTURE (IICA)

SUBMISSION BY THE IICA

The following submission, dated 9 October 2017, is being circulated at the request of the Inter‑American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

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The purpose of this document is to inform Member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) about some of the technical cooperation activities carried out by the IICA in 2017[1] to support Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries in the area of food and nutrition security.

One of the objectives of the IICA's 2014‑2018 Medium‑Term Plan (MTP) is to improve agriculture's contribution to food security. Accordingly, the Institute cooperates with its Member States in developing policies, strategies and institutional frameworks to this end, and especially to enhance the contribution of family farming.

The IICA provides its technical cooperation through various instruments, such as programmes and projects financed from external resources, a technical cooperation fund (FonCT), rapid‑response actions, cooperation programmes for research and innovation (PROCI), an agricultural health and food safety programme, and four flagship projects, the latter focusing on four main areas: