Colombia: Law 2294 of 2023 - National Development Plan 2022–2026
Start Date:
19/05/2023
End Date:
N/A
Description
This law enacts Colombia's National Development Plan 2022–2026 in which agricultural and food-related content constitutes one of its core structural axes. The right to food is operationalized through the National System for the Progressive Guarantee of the Right to Food, the "Zero Hunger" cash transfer, and its linkage to public procurement from smallholder and family farming systems. Agrarian reform is channeled through the National Agrarian Reform and Rural Development System—with subsystems covering land access, agricultural credit, technical assistance, and commercialization—alongside the creation of Campesino Agri-food Territories and campesino forestry concessions. On the financial side, the PND restructures the Agricultural Guarantee Fund, the National Agricultural Credit Commission, and FINAGRO's investment mechanisms. Additionally, it establishes nutritional recovery zones, finances land and irrigation infrastructure through FONAT, and introduces payments for environmental services for rural producers.