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100,000 people supported
More than 100,000 people in 250 rural communities benefited from anticipatory actions implemented in nine countries during the 2023-2024 El Niño event, with increases of up to 40% in maize and bean production in some Central American countries. -
Backyard Poultry Ownership in Rural Houses - LAC
Up to 80% of rural households in Latin America and the Caribbean own backyard poultry. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026). -
Honduras Strengthens Food Resilience
1.5 billion lempiras were allocated by Honduras to the 2026 Agricultural, Livestock and Coffee Production Incentives Program to strengthen food security and respond to climate emergencies.
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100,000 people supported
More than 100,000 people in 250 rural communities benefited from anticipatory actions implemented in nine countries during the 2023-2024 El Niño event, with increases of up to 40% in maize and bean production in some Central American countries.
Backyard Poultry Ownership in Rural Houses - LAC
Up to 80% of rural households in Latin America and the Caribbean own backyard poultry. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026).
Honduras Strengthens Food Resilience
1.5 billion lempiras were allocated by Honduras to the 2026 Agricultural, Livestock and Coffee Production Incentives Program to strengthen food security and respond to climate emergencies.
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Buen Vivir in Rural Territories Programme
The programme aims to improve food security and livelihoods of food-insecure rural households in poverty, largely dependent on small-scale agriculture and vulnerable to climate change. It promotes an endogenous territorial development model centred on family-scale agroecological production, organizational and community capacity strengthening, and investment in territorial economic initiatives. It supports the implementation of national food sovereignty policy within a complementarity framework across government levels, with attention to sustainable water and natural resource management.
Second Rural Productive Partnerships Project - Colombia
The project strengthened productive alliances between smallholder rural producer organizations and private agribusiness buyers through subproject financing combining technical assistance, productive asset investment, and business development training to improve market access. Its objective was to increase rural competitiveness and agricultural entrepreneurship in poor rural communities through a demand-driven scheme anchored in private sector engagement. The project incorporated explicit inclusion mechanisms targeting women, indigenous communities, and Afro-Colombians within agricultural value chains.
Smart agriculture for sustainable development in Guyana: Precision agriculture, AI and IoT
This project integrates precision agriculture, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things technologies with climate-smart agricultural practices and bioeconomy models to improve productivity, resilience, and food security for smallholder farmers in Guyana. Through three components (precision technology adoption, technical and institutional capacity building, and integration of bioeconomy practices and value chain strengthening), the project directly benefits 25,000 farmers, indigenous communities, and Afro-descendants in regions 1, 2, 7, 8, and 9 of the country.
Policy frameworks
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Peru: Regulation of Law No. 31315, Food Security and Nutrition Law
It sets out the institutional and operational framework for implementing Peru's food security and nutrition policy, defining the role of eighteen co-responsible entities — including ministries, regional and local governments — in promoting sustainable, productive, equitable and resilient food systems. It provides for the approval of the National Food Security and Nutrition Policy, led by the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation in coordination with the Multisectoral Commission on Food Security and Nutrition and CEPLAN, and establishes intersectoral coordination mechanisms for responding to food emergencies, maintaining a national food stock, and pursuing bilateral or multilateral agreements to safeguard food supply. It also creates the Food Security and Nutrition Observatory as a tool for generating evidence and monitoring results.
Peru: Establishing the Multisectoral Working Group for the Articulation of Legume Production, Marketing and Consumption - Ministerial Resolution No. 0034-2026-MIDAGRI
Establishes a temporary Multisectoral Working Group tasked with formulating proposed actions to articulate the production, marketing and domestic consumption of legumes in Peru, in response to declining consumption of pulses ("menestras") and its impact on food security and the income of farming households. Chaired by the Ministerial Office of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, the group brings together representatives from MIDAGRI itself (the General Directorate of Agricultural Development and Agroecology and AGROIDEAS), the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, and the Ministry of Health, with a twelve-month renewable term. Its functions include conducting a situational diagnosis, identifying gaps and stakeholders, and drafting a proposal for intersectoral articulation actions.
Working Families Tax Cuts: tax support for family farms
Official statement from the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means on the Working Families Tax Cuts. The source states that the law made permanent and enhanced the estate tax exemption, raising it to USD 30 million for married couples, with the aim of protecting family farms and facilitating the transfer of land, equipment, and farm operations to the next generation. It also mentions small business deductions, lower borrowing costs, rural opportunity zones, and immediate expensing for machinery and equipment.
Good practices
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Buen Vivir in Rural Territories Programme
The programme aims to improve food security and livelihoods of food-insecure rural households in poverty, largely dependent on small-scale agriculture and vulnerable to climate change. It promotes an endogenous territorial development model centred on family-scale agroecological production, organizational and community capacity strengthening, and investment in territorial economic initiatives. It supports the implementation of national food sovereignty policy within a complementarity framework across government levels, with attention to sustainable water and natural resource management.
Second Rural Productive Partnerships Project - Colombia
The project strengthened productive alliances between smallholder rural producer organizations and private agribusiness buyers through subproject financing combining technical assistance, productive asset investment, and business development training to improve market access. Its objective was to increase rural competitiveness and agricultural entrepreneurship in poor rural communities through a demand-driven scheme anchored in private sector engagement. The project incorporated explicit inclusion mechanisms targeting women, indigenous communities, and Afro-Colombians within agricultural value chains.
Integrating sorghum cultivation into agricultural systems in the Central American Dry Corridor
The project establishes a regional partnership for the sustainable intensification of the Dry Corridor through the integration of climate-resilient sorghum and forage crop genotypes. Through soil characterization and a digital recommendation platform, the project aims to increase productivity and water availability in vulnerable agricultural systems. The initiative, funded by the Government of New Zealand (GRA), will transfer technical knowledge and precision technology to producers, advisors, and students in the region.
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