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Climate change threatens imports and increases Puerto Rico's food vulnerability

Submitted on 24 August 2023 - 3:54pm

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El Nuevo Día

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Carlos Tolentino Rosario y Amanda Pérez Pintado

Forest fires, torrential rains, droughts and extreme heat affect the countries that supply the archipelago, forcing an increase in local production, according to experts.

 

On an island that imports 85% of what it consumes, seeing the shelves full of products in supermarkets, despite the fact that the last natural disaster was a year ago with Hurricane Fiona, does not hide an irrefutable fact: Puerto Rico is at the mercy of the ravages of climate change in the countries that supply it with food, agreed multiple voices consulted by El Nuevo Día.

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Agricultural Sciences defend the value of their research

Submitted on 3 May 2017 - 4:10pm

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Leadership from the College of Agricultural Sciences (CCA) at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus, defended the value of the Extended Agricultural Service (SEA) and the Experimental Agricultural Station (EEA) against the attacks on the role of these entities, whose mission is to promote agriculture, research and community service for Puerto Rican families.

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RUM will host the Agricultural Summit of Puerto Rico

Submitted on 22 February 2016 - 6:38pm

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Diálogo Digital

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Michelle Estades

The Agricultural Summit will be an exchange of ideas between professors, entrepreneurs, bussiness, agronomists about the present agrifood, the successes achieved, what can be done, its projection and the long terms effects.

The event will be held in the School of Bussiness Administration  and has been organized by the College of Agriculture Science, the College of Agronomists of Puerto Rico and the Department of Agriculure. 

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No food without agriculture

Submitted on 14 July 2014 - 9:26pm

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Pedro Bosque Pérez / pedro.bosque@gfrmedia.com

Puerto Rico only produces 15% of the food it consumes, which represents a threat to the archipelago's food security.

 

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Project promotes food security through school orchards

Submitted on 20 February 2014 - 12:44pm

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El Nuevo Día

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ELNUEVODIA.com

A project sponsored by the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture promotes the creation of school gardens to solve food security issues in Puerto Rico.

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Young farmer an example for all

Submitted on 12 August 2013 - 12:01am

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Josefina Barceló Jiménez / jbarcelo@elnuevodia.com

José Esteban López Maldonado is one of the youngest certified farmers in Puerto Rico. Together with his father, this 10-year-old from Adjuntas cultivates a variety of fruits, vegetables and legumes in his farm and is also a musician.

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Dire situation at the Department of Agriculture

Submitted on 15 May 2013 - 9:45am

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El Nuevo Día

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Gerardo Cordero / gerardo.cordero@gfrmedia.com

The main goal of the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture is to foster food security. This task is however difficulted by a lack of funding, agricultural statistics, or progress reports from previous years.

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