WAPATO, Wash., May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Pace International, a leading provider of sustainable postharvest solutions and technologies for the fresh produce industry, will be hosting its annual Postharvest Academy virtually on May 6, 2021.
The Postharvest Academy is a half-day event in which Pace International invites customers to learn about the latest research in the postharvest segment and to discuss the topics and trends driving the industry. This year’s online event will be focused on cherries and pome fruit. Its virtual format will enable customers in Chile and Mexico to attend.
The event will kick off at 8:45am PDT with Rodrigo Cifuentes, Chief Operating Officer at Pace International, welcoming attendees and introducing Jim Bair, President & CEO, U.S. Apple Association.
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Reckless Rush to Reopen Threatens Chile’s Exemplary Vaccination Strategy
Easing restrictions without clear risk communication undercuts some of the country’s hard-won progress in fighting the pandemic
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People wait for their turn to be vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at the Medalla Milagrosa Church in Valparaíso, Chile, on April 6, 2021. Credit: Javier Torres
COVID-19 vaccine campaigns in Latin America
lag well behind those in the global north. But Chile has been an outlier. It has defied the regional trend and plowed ahead with a campaign that has fully vaccinated a higher percentage of its population than any other country with more than 10 million inhabitants. By the end of March more than one in three Chileans had received a full course of vaccination for COVID-19.
On March 21, 2020, the first case of the coronavirus was recorded in Puerto Williams, a small Chilean town that is famed for being the southernmost settlement in the world and which has been home for the past 7,000 years to the Yaghan indigenous people. Two days later, the authorities closed maritime entry points and airspace, limited economic activity to essential business only and ordered a strict lockdown. According to
Maritime Studies, one of the leading social sciences and humanities publications in the world, the quarantine measures had the effect of reviving some ancestral cultural practices that had been in danger of disappearing for some time, including traditional artisan work and use of the Yaghan language. The lockdown also strengthened intergenerational links in the community and led children and young people to once again feel identified as indigenous people.
Global Forum of University Presidents unites heads of over 110 universities
MINSK, 23 April (BelTA) – Rector of Belarusian State University Andrei Korol is taking part in the Global Forum of University Presidents 2021 (GFUP 2021) themed Innovate for the Future: Vision and New Mission of Universities. The large-scale event kicked off on 19 April in the online and offline format and is marking the 110th anniversary of Tsinghua University (China), BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian university.
The main focus of the forum is to discuss the features and prospects for the development of universities in the 21st century and to study their potential. The event has brought together the heads of more than 110 universities from Belarus, Belgium, the UK, Israel, India, Italy, China, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, the USA, Sweden and other countries.