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SMEs Dominate the Regional Agrifood Sector
66% of surveyed agrifood companies in Latin America and the Caribbean identify themselves as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). -
Companies Demand Trade-Related Training
67% of surveyed agrifood companies in Latin America and the Caribbean are interested in training on market access and international trade. -
Companies Are Unaware of Public Policy Instruments
47% of surveyed agrifood companies in Latin America and the Caribbean report being unaware of public policy instruments targeted at the sector, highlighting gaps in access to support programs.
Value Addition
A cross-cutting perspective from the area of VALUE ADDITION policies by components, countries, sources of funding, beneficiaries, instruments, economic sectors, and best practices.
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Events
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Evidences
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SMEs Dominate the Regional Agrifood Sector
66% of surveyed agrifood companies in Latin America and the Caribbean identify themselves as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Companies Demand Trade-Related Training
67% of surveyed agrifood companies in Latin America and the Caribbean are interested in training on market access and international trade.
Companies Are Unaware of Public Policy Instruments
47% of surveyed agrifood companies in Latin America and the Caribbean report being unaware of public policy instruments targeted at the sector, highlighting gaps in access to support programs.
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Investments and Public Expenditure
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Danper Trujillo S.A.C.
The project finances the company's investment plan to develop 562 additional hectares of agricultural plantations, modernize its industrial processes, and partially refinance its bank debt. It responds to the sustained growth of Peruvian agricultural exports to the United States and the European Union, whose expansion is constrained by raw material supply. It aims to expand production and improve quality to compete in new markets, including Asia.
Pacari Chocolate: Traceability and Associations
The project is a loan aimed at improving cacao production and traceability technologies, as well as the production of high-quality chocolate in Ecuador. It seeks to incorporate smallholder cacao producers into a supply chain with better prices, while strengthening the operational capacity and high-quality raw-material purchasing capacity of the beneficiary company. Its impact objective is to improve the socioeconomic conditions of smallholder cacao producers in Manabí province.
Zero-Deforestation Cocoa: A Model for Sustainability and Market Access for Agroforestry Cocoa Producers in the Colombian Amazon
It aims to strengthen the cocoa value chain in the Colombian Amazon by implementing georeferenced traceability compatible with international zero-deforestation standards (EUDR and UKFRC) and promoting the transition to biodiverse agroforestry systems to increase productivity and diversify producers' income. The project also targets the strengthening of associative governance and sustainable commercial linkages.
Policy frameworks
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Peru: Law No. 31920 - Law Promoting the Industrialization of Potato Cultivation
Promotes the industrialization of potato cultivation in Peru to diversify the range of derived products, boost exports and improve profitability for potato producers. It tasks the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation with providing technical assistance on production quality, technification and processing, and with promoting certified seed use through Senasa. The law also provides for mass outreach campaigns encouraging domestic and international consumption of Peruvian potatoes, along with the promotion of public or private financing programs, coordinated with regional and local governments, to support industrialization.
Colombia: Law 2378 of 2024 - Establishing Guidelines for the Formulation of the National Agricultural Marketing Policy
Establishes the guidelines for Colombia's National Agricultural Marketing Policy, structured around three components: agricultural production planning, logistics, and commercialization. Its formulation is entrusted to an intersectoral technical board led by the Ministry of Agriculture, bringing together state agencies, campesino representatives, and agricultural sector organizations. The policy seeks to reduce market intermediation, strengthen logistics infrastructure, and improve marketing channels for smallholder and family farming systems, under gender, ethnic, and territorial differential approaches. It mandates the adoption of digital technologies and agroecological practices, and includes a specific component for the San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina Archipelago.
State Public Policy for the Ecuadorian Agricultural Sector 2025-2034 "Hands for the Field"
State public policy of Ecuador's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), developed with IICA support and validated by the National Planning Secretariat, establishing the vision, objectives and strategies for the Ecuadorian agricultural sector for 2025-2034. Its general objective is to promote the agricultural sector sustainably through innovation, research and technology, ensuring food security and sovereignty. It articulates ten strategic axes: productivity, quality and food safety; market orientation and development; access to services and infrastructure; associativity; environmental sustainability and climate change; institutional modernization; family farming; rural welfare; financing and insurance; and education, innovation and technical assistance.
Good practices
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Chocolate Island — Cocoa, Carbon and Community
The project drives Trinidad and Tobago's cacao and chocolate industry toward a post-pandemic, ESG-aligned productive model through an innovative approach that integrates the cacao value chain with carbon capture mechanisms and community development, packaged together in an impact investment offer called "Cacao, Carbon and Community." The initiative seeks to attract impact investors by delivering simultaneous returns across three dimensions: financial, through the commercialization of fine cacao and single-origin chocolate; environmental, by valorizing ecosystem services and carbon credits generated by cacao agroforestry systems; and social, by strengthening local farming communities and improving their livelihoods. In doing so, the project positions Trinidad and Tobago as a destination for sustainable investment in the Caribbean agrifood sector, leveraging the country's historic reputation in fine flavor cacao production to build a differentiated and regionally replicable value proposition.
Biovalor / Bioterra demonstration projects
An initiative launched in Uruguay to promote the valorization of agro-industrial waste through the development of demonstration projects. Through Biovalor and its successor (Bioterra), the aim is to transform waste into value-added products, such as biofertilizers, energy, or production inputs, fostering a circular economy and sustainability.
Agricultural Health and Innovation Project (DR-L1137)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan operation designed to improve the competitiveness of the agricultural sector in the Dominican Republic. The project aims to increase productivity, facilitate international market access, and raise food quality by improving agricultural health and food safety services, boosting innovation and the transfer of plant and animal health technologies (including the use of bio-inputs), and strengthening the national agricultural statistics system.
Dialogue rooms
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Family farming linked to competitive markets. Public food procurement, valuation of origin-related attributes, productive alliances.
Responses of technical assistance and rural extension to the challenges of competitive sustainability in family farming and rural MSMEs.
Inserción financiera e inversiones de impacto para la agricultura familiar y las MIPYMES rurales
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