The goal of the Agricultural Health, Food Safety and Food Quality Program is to promote a productive, competitive, and sustainable agricultural sector that provides safe food to local, regional and global markets through the development, improvement and application of agricultural health and food safety policies.
IICA has worked in the area of agricultural health for over 40 years and, during that time, has amassed considerable experience and expertise in areas that are critically relevant to our Member Countries. Beyond capacities within the Institute, we count on a large network of collaborators in both the public and private sector to support implementation of technical capacity building projects.
IICA’s key strengths in Agricultural Health, Food Safety and Food Quality fall into three categories: modernization of national services, implementation of sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and technical capacity building.