In 2023, the relative internal productivity of the Agriculture sector in Latin America and the Caribbean was 44 (with total productivity coefficient = 100), showing its lag compared to sectors with higher productivity, according to the sectoral graph of the report (ECLAC, 2025).

In the sectoral mapping of PAIs, agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing accounts for 248 PAIs (34.8%), followed by manufacturing (188), tourism (70) and ICT (51); additionally, 32 PAIs in health are identified, according to the report (ECLAC, 2025).

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing sector accounts for 248 productive articulation initiatives (PAI), representing 34.8% of the total, according to the report (ECLAC, 2025).

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.

The project strengthens the competitiveness of family-based organic banana production in the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Ecuador by scaling technological innovations, promoting agronomic practices that reduce pest-related losses and improve soil health, and introducing the Ma$ Banano digital tool for farm management. It builds technical capacity and organizational strength in 12 small-producer associations, directly benefiting 2,400 family farmers involved in organic export markets.

The project aimed to improve the living conditions of plantain-producing rural communities in four Latin American and Caribbean countries through the introduction, validation, and adoption of technological innovations in primary production, agro-industrial processing, and plantain marketing. The initiative promoted the modernization of production systems by implementing technologies to increase productivity, reduce post-harvest losses, strengthen local capacities in agro-industrial processing (chips, flours, dehydrated products), and reinforce value chains through business organization, marketing strategies, and improved access to markets.

Transitional law (6 months) applying a zero customs tariff rate to basic food items in the Dominican family basket in response to price increases driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Covers meats, dairy, vegetable oils, flours, pasta, legumes, and canned foods.

The purpose of the Agroecological Production Policy is to provide a common framework for analysis for collective agroecological action. It seeks to facilitate the epistemological and theoretical arguments that drive the construction and development of this field in order to operationalize the struggle for agrifood sustainability. Once the policy has been developed and disseminated, it is shared among the actors working in this field, and the document that adequately provides for collective action from an agroecological perspective is also circulated.

The INDRHI's National Hydrological Plan 2025–2045 is a 20-year roadmap to ensure water resources as the basis for development and climate resilience in the Dominican Republic. It proposes a paradigm shift from reactive management to comprehensive basin planning, with four strategic axes: (i) water policy and governance (regulatory framework, public information, institutional strengthening, and participation); (ii) universal access and quality (drinking water and sanitation, discharge control, treatment, and reuse); (iii) adaptation and water security (restoration of headwaters, infrastructure protection, drought and flood control, hydrometeorological network, and real-time monitoring); and (iv) efficiency and productivity (irrigation modernization, efficient urban and industrial demand, circular water economy). The plan organizes prioritized investment programs and portfolios—with targets, indicators, and financing schemes—and proposes management tools (water balances, information systems, strategic environmental assessment) to organize uses, reduce losses, expand availability through storage, recharge, and reuse, and align water policy with the NDC and SDGs.

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.

Institutional program of the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) aimed at evaluating, highlighting, and strengthening the impact of its financing and technical cooperation operations in the agricultural sector of Latin America and the Caribbean. The initiative promotes a model of sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative agriculture, integrating climate resilience, technological innovation, efficient management of natural resources, and the inclusion of small producers in sustainable value chains.

This technical cooperation seeks to contribute to increasing agricultural productivity in the region through improving the efficiency of agricultural research systems in Central America and the Dominican Republic. It focuses on overcoming the limitations these systems face in achieving their mission through the collection and analysis of data on agricultural science and technology indicators. The initiative includes updating ASTI indicators for the 2013-2020 period, analyzing the performance of research systems, and disseminating results.