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Estimated inv. against effects of El Niño (2026)
Latin America and the Caribbean require US$33 million to take action and protect 1.1 million people from the anticipated effects of El Niño, including those related to food security. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026). -
Availability of aquatic foods in LAC (2023)
In 2023, the average per capita availability of aquatic foods in Latin America was 10.1 kg. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026). -
Capture of Engraulis ringens in the Pacific (2024)
After a sharp decline linked to the 2023 El Niño phenomenon, the anchovy (Engraulis ringens) recovered remarkably in 2024, with catches increasing by almost 65%, from 3.5 million tons to 5.7 million tons. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026).
Technical assistance to producers
Technical assistance focuses on transferring technical knowledge to rural communities in a linear manner, but if it is a more comprehensive process, it should be classified as Technical Extension (www.agronet.gov.co/Noticias/Paginas/La-extensi%C3%B3n-agropecuaria-una-herramienta-fundamental-en-el-desarrollo-rural-colombiano.aspx)
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Estimated inv. against effects of El Niño (2026)
Latin America and the Caribbean require US$33 million to take action and protect 1.1 million people from the anticipated effects of El Niño, including those related to food security. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026).
Availability of aquatic foods in LAC (2023)
In 2023, the average per capita availability of aquatic foods in Latin America was 10.1 kg. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026).
Capture of Engraulis ringens in the Pacific (2024)
After a sharp decline linked to the 2023 El Niño phenomenon, the anchovy (Engraulis ringens) recovered remarkably in 2024, with catches increasing by almost 65%, from 3.5 million tons to 5.7 million tons. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026).
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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.
Rural Alliances Project II
nvestment initiative aimed at improving market access for small-scale rural producers by promoting productive alliances between producer organizations and buyers, strengthening self-managed grassroots organizations, increasing access to productive assets, technology and financial services, and fostering environmentally sustainable, climate-resilient production practices, with an emphasis on efficient irrigation water use.
Policy frameworks
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Colombia: Law 101 of 1993 - General Agricultural and Fisheries Development Law
Framework law comprehensively regulating the development of Colombia's agricultural and fisheries sector, establishing an integrated set of policy instruments aimed at protecting producer income and improving rural quality of life. It encompasses preferential credit mechanisms, a rural capitalization incentive, price stabilization funds, parafiscal contributions, and agricultural insurance, complemented by commercialization interventions through IDEMA and minimum guarantee prices to producers. The law defines the regime for technical assistance and agricultural health under ICA's authority, and incorporates provisions on rural social investment and a rural family subsidy scheme. It also establishes international trade protection mechanisms through tariffs, safeguards, and compensatory measures to safeguard the competitiveness of domestic agricultural production.
Peru: Regulation of Law No. 32437, Technified Irrigation Law
Regulation establishing provisions for the application of Law No. 32437, aimed at promoting efficient, productive and sustainable use of water resources in agriculture at the parcel level. It regulates the planning, financing, formulation, execution and monitoring of investments in technified irrigation (pressurized systems — drip, sprinkler, microsprinkler — and technified gravity systems) across four area types: traditional irrigation, rainfed areas with water availability, pasturelands with water access, and eriazas land with agricultural aptitude. It defines roles for the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Irrigation, regional and local governments, water user organizations, peasant and native communities, and establishes a public co-financing structure of up to 100% for small producers (≤2 ha) and 80% for general parcel infrastructure.
Production for Wellbeing Program: Farmer Field Schools for the agroecological transition and improvement of maize yields in Mexico.
Mexico’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reports that technical assistance and agroecological practices implemented through Field Schools achieved maize yield increases of up to 25% in 25 states during 2025. The strategy also reduced production costs and promoted seed banks, producer associations and sustainable production practices.
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.
Rural Alliances Project II
nvestment initiative aimed at improving market access for small-scale rural producers by promoting productive alliances between producer organizations and buyers, strengthening self-managed grassroots organizations, increasing access to productive assets, technology and financial services, and fostering environmentally sustainable, climate-resilient production practices, with an emphasis on efficient irrigation water use.
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