2 percentage points is the reduction in export duties applied to wheat and barley in Argentina, lowering the rate from 7.5% to 5.5% beginning in June 2026.

3 strategic crops, maize, sugar and wheat, face production risks associated with El Niño: lower maize and sugar production in Brazil and impacts on part of Argentina's wheat harvest.

2 components of inflation, food and energy, could increase in response to an intense El Niño event in Latin America during 2026.

Regional technical cooperation project aimed at optimizing nitrogen fertilizer use and reducing nitrous oxide emissions in agricultural systems in Chile, Argentina, Peru, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. The project seeks to generate specific emission factors, evaluate nitrogen sources, rates, and application timing, develop mitigation strategies, maintain yields, strengthen national greenhouse gas inventories, and generate best-practice recommendations for efficient nitrogen use.

Regional technical cooperation project aimed at scaling the adoption of the 3RWeb digital tool to improve pasture and forage reserve management in pastoral systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The project seeks to maximize forage harvest at farm level, improve self-sufficiency and economic and environmental sustainability of pastoral systems, reduce costs, increase resilience to climate variability, conserve biodiversity, and contribute to climate change mitigation.

Regional technical cooperation project focused on the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the Central American Dry Corridor through the incorporation of sorghum genotypes and other forage cereals adapted to different environments. The project aims to increase productivity, sustainability, and resilience of production systems through climate and soil characterization, genotype evaluation, development of an online platform with recommendations, and knowledge transfer to farmers, agricultural technicians, advisors, and students.

Argentina's Executive Decree No. 697/2026 reorganizes the National Food Control System and modifies the allocation of responsibilities for food registration, sanitary control and inspection. The reform concentrates operational food registration, control and inspection functions, including food import controls, within the National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (SENASA), with the objective of reducing institutional overlaps, simplifying procedures and making use of SENASA's nationwide inspection infrastructure, laboratories and technical personnel. The Decree modifies provisions governing the National Food Control System, expands recognition by equivalence of certifications covering food additives, processing aids, ingredients and other inputs used in food manufacturing when originating in countries with recognized food-control systems or evaluated in accordance with Codex Alimentarius standards, and establishes simplified import procedures. It also strengthens the Single Database of food establishments and products, to be administered by SENASA and updated by competent sanitary authorities, and modifies procedures related to updating the Argentine Food Code. The reform further seeks to facilitate food trade by introducing post-entry controls for certain imported foods packaged for direct retail sale and by simplifying export certification while maintaining applicable sanitary and food-safety requirements. The Ministry of Health retains sanitary-policy leadership and participation in updating the Argentine Food Code, while SENASA assumes broader operational inspection responsibilities.

Joint Resolution 7/2026 of Argentina's Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT) incorporates MERCOSUR Common Market Group Resolution No. 13/23, approving the MERCOSUR Technical Regulation on Identity and Quality of UHT Milk, into Argentina's national legal framework and replaces Article 560 bis of the Argentine Food Code. The regulation updates the definition and technical requirements applicable to Ultra-High-Temperature milk, including classification according to fat content, sales denomination, ingredients, sensory characteristics, physicochemical and microbiological parameters, contaminants, hygiene requirements, labeling, analytical methods and sampling procedures. The measure replaces the technical framework derived from GMC Resolutions No. 78/94 and 135/96 and harmonizes Argentine regulation with the updated MERCOSUR standard in order to facilitate the safe circulation and commercialization of UHT milk among Member States and in extra-zone imports.

SENASA Resolution 200/2026 approves the regulatory framework and technical standard for the authorization of primary production establishments, or dairy farms, supplying milk to reception, treatment and/or processing plants producing dairy products or by-products for export to the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The regulation establishes sanitary, hygienic and structural requirements and procedures for applications, inspections, assessments, authorization, renewal, preventive suspension and withdrawal of authorization. Each dairy-farm authorization is valid for two years and renewal may be requested up to three months before expiry. Inspections are carried out by the competent local SENASA veterinarian and establishments are classified as acceptable or not acceptable. The Resolution also requires the involvement of a private or accredited veterinarian as sanitary co-responsible for animal health, treatments, records, animal welfare, feeding and facility hygiene. The framework provides for up to three inspection instances, preventive measures, penalties for non-compliance and progressive digitalization of administrative procedures through the SIGTrámites platform.

This project establishes a technical network across five countries (including the Dominican Republic and Panama) to optimize the use of nitrogen fertilizers through the 4R strategy. Its goal is to increase food productivity and reduce $N_{2}O$ emissions by developing common protocols and local emission factors (Tier 2). The results will strengthen national GHG inventories and promote public policies for sustainability and climate resilience in the region.

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.

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.