President Irfaan Ali says that Guyana plans to work with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to develop a technology-driven regional food hub.
The Head of State, who received an award from IICA for his Leadership in Food Security and Sus-tainable Development on Tuesday night at a special ceremony in San Jose, Costa Rica said that the region must build an alliance around food security, a release from the Office of the President said.
To ensure this happens quickly, the President said, “We are going to be working with IICA on the establishment of a regional food hub, with the right technology, applying the right phytosanitary standards, so that the products that come through the regional food hub will have all the standards for all the countries”.
