Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas agree to intensify joint efforts to tackle cross-border plant and animal diseases that threaten food security
Brasilia, 5 November 2025 (IICA). Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas, meeting in Brasilia, agreed to strengthen technical cooperation, increase information sharing and improve access to innovative technologies to maximize the prevention and control of the New World screwworm, African swine fever and other cross-border plant and animal diseases.
These pests and diseases are a threat to food security in the hemisphere and the income of farmers and rural communities.
During the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2025, organized by the government of Brazil and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), resolved to support the Agricultural Health and Food Security Initiative of the Americas as a platform aimed at aligning and strengthening hemispheric efforts in this area.
The ministers and senior officials of Agriculture of the countries gathered in the Brazilian capital expressed their commitment to support alignment between the hemisphere’s trade and agricultural production systems, and to defend science-based decision-making in trade processes.
The delegations in the countries, particularly in Argentina and the United States, pointed out that IICA Member States comprise the world’s largest net food exporting region, and that maintaining a competitive, safe and healthy agrifood system is key to achieving prosperity and improving public health and the national and regional levels.
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Mr. Minister. I hope by now you know that education is the key. And it make no sense to try and teach an old dog new tricks. They just will not learn. Too stubborn. When you send people to China to learn new technologies place send only young people. Our future and the future of agriculture is in their hands. The stigma that agriculture is for school drop-offs needs to be something of the past. Agriculture is a science and those school drop-offs in the past have not studied science. They cannot even read the pesticide labels. It remains remarkable that they have not poison the people with over spraying of pesticides. Pesticide are sold at CMC and everyone can buy those dangerous chemicals. And no one will explain to you how to use it and how to store it. Its like putting a gun in the hands of a child. Anyway thank God who protect us from all danger.