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IICA Director General meets U.S. officials to advance hemispheric food-security agenda
Officials aim to improve regional capacity for pest and disease control and support resilient supply chains benefiting producers across 34 IICA member states.
- During his first U.S. visit since January 15, Muhammad Ibrahim met USDA officials to advance hemispheric food safety and trade cooperation, including discussions with Luke J. Lindberg and Michelle Bekkering.
- USDA officials argued that science-based standards and evidence-driven risk assessments underpin trusted agricultural trade, as Michelle Bekkering highlighted.
- Practical steps discussed included strengthening biosecurity, expanding early-warning systems, and improving coordinated response mechanisms, involving the U.S. Department of Agriculture and IICA.
- IICA said it is ready to operationalise measures across its 34 Member States and to support agricultural recovery in Venezuela through collaboration with the USDA, Ibrahim reaffirmed.
- The high-level engagement signals an immediate push to deepen science-based, evidence-driven agricultural trade and protect the hemispheric food-supply chain, IICA press channels documented with Muhammad Ibrahim and USDA.
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Director General of IICA and Senior USDA Officials Advance Shared Agenda to Strengthen Food Safety, Biosecurity, and Agricultural Trade in the Americas
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On his first visit to the United States since assuming office on January 15, Director General Muhammad Ibrahim of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) met with senior officials of the U.S.…
IICA Director General meets U.S. officials to advance hemispheric food-security agenda
ON his first visit to the United States since assuming office on January 15, Director General Muhammad Ibrahim of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) met with senior officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to advance a shared agenda to protect the hemispheric food supply and expand opportunities for farmers and […]
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