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Official visit of the members of the Board of Directors to Mexico

ALASA authorities visited Mexico City where they carried out various activities related to updating, innovation and development of agricultural insurance. Mexico is the eleventh world producer of food from agricultural crops and primary livestock and ranks 17th internationally in fisheries and aquaculture production. With respect to the Agricultural Insurance market, it is considered one of the top 3 in Latin America and older. It currently has a support / subsidy system for insurance premiums by the State. However, there is great

Latin America’s role in world food security

During the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of the Americas 2019., held in Costa Rica with the participation of Government representatives from 34 countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, the director general of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Manuel Otero said that Latin America and the Caribbean “have everything” to provide food security to the planet, but that great efforts are required to eliminate social gaps. “We are the largest net food export region in the world,”

Climate in the americas | September – December 2018

During September and beginnings of October, surface temperature anomaly values of the Tropical Pacific that had remained around 0.5°C grew steadily up to 1.1°C above the average at the beginning of December, thus leading to El Niño 2019 if it remains along 3 consecutive months. This is the count of the impacts of meteorological and climatic events in the Americas (Chart 1). In large regions of North America there was above-average rainfall during the September-November quarter in Central and Eastern Canada,

Climate observed in the americas | June – December 2016

During the first semester, climate in the Americas had the influence of the event El Niño which began in 2014 and finished on May, 2016, followed by the condition Neutral.  Its effects were felt in some areas of the North, Center and South America. Those were deep droughts together with sectional flooding produced by intense rainfall.  However, it can be said that 2016 was a year of good weather in general terms. This was reflected in the increasing production of several