AL-INVEST Verde News

Governments of 12 provinces in Ecuador receive training on traceability in the cocoa value chain
A total of 42 professionals, including technical and administrative staff from 12 provinces of Ecuador belonging to the Consortium of Governments

AL-INVEST Verde completes implementation of 24 projects benefiting over 24,500 MSMEs
AL-INVEST Verde, the European Union's international cooperation programme that promotes job creation through the

More than 2,000 people from nine provinces in Ecuador are trained in traceability and EUDR.
More than 2,000 people from the provinces of Guayas, Manabí, Esmeraldas, Los Ríos, Santo Domingo, Orellana, Napo, El Oro, and

The First Meeting on Legality and Traceability in response to the EUDR is organised in Argentina
The environmental and social sustainability platform VISEC, together with the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires,

Paraguay joins TMview, the largest free trademark search database
The National Directorate of Intellectual Property of Paraguay (DINAPI) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO),

Chile strengthens inter-institutional coordination to comply with European regulations on deforestation-free products
On 11 December, Chile's Office of Agricultural Studies and Policies (Odepa) presided over the constitution of the Committee for Agricultural Studies and Policies (Comité de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias de Chile).
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Component 3, led by EUIPO conducted the Virtual Workshop on Plant Variety Licensing.
The European Commission, through the AL-INVEST Verde programme (Component 2), and IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute), organised on 15 September in Brasilia (Brazil) the closing conference of the series of three "Technical dialogues on the sustainability and traceability of beef and leather value chains".