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Guidelines, strategies, regulations, resolutions and agreements, at the international, regional, national and subnational levels that configure the actions of the State.

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Food and post-production costs (2025)
Post-farmgate activities account for 70 to 75 percent of what consumers pay. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026).
Average cost of a healthy diet in LAC (2025)
The average cost of a healthy diet in Latin America and the Caribbean was $4.91 purchasing power parity (PPP) per person per day. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2026).
Global average cost of a healthy diet (2025)
The global average cost of a healthy diet rose to $4.28 purchasing power parity (PPP) per person per day. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026).
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World population with food insecurity (2025)
Around 2.1 billion people (25.8% of the world's population) experienced moderate or severe food insecurity in 2025. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2026).

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Criteria and Indicators on Climate Resilience in the Development and Implementation of Rural Agricultural Development Pr...

This report presents a proposal to identify climate resilience criteria and indicators within public policies and programs, with a particular focus on rural agricultural development and family farming...

Public policies for bioinputs towards a space for exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean

Trends, advances and needs in the process of building public policies for the use of bioinputs have been identified: agreeing on a definition of bioinputs, adapting regulatory frameworks and identifyi...

Canada to provide $6.5 million to small farmers in Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru hit by the COVID-19 pandemic

The Government of Canada will contribute to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme to support the recovery of small farmers affected...

Action Plan for the Development of Organic Production

The Organic Farming Action Plan, presented by the Commission in March 2021 as part of the Farm to Fork Strategy, sets out a series of actions to increase organic farming in the EU.

Regulatory Framework to Promote and Strengthen the Peasant Economy and Family Farming in the Andean Region

Regional normative framework approved by the Andean Parliament Plenary (Recommendation No. 419, May 2020) establishing guiding guidelines for the design of public policies in favor of the peasant econ...

Implementation- Ongoing

Eurasian Economic Union: Temporary export ban on certain food products due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Temporary export ban on certain food products (e.g. bulb onions; garlic; turnips; rye; rice; buckwheat; millet; cereal groats; meal and pellets; buckwheat grains pearled; soya beans, whether or not b...

Food and Fertilizer Export Restriction Tracker Tool (European Union)

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) began tracking food export restrictions and documenting their impacts after the COVID-19 blockades began and some national governments took mea...

UNDP Strategic Plan in Paraguay 2020-2024

It helps countries to achieve simultaneously the eradication of poverty and a significant reduction in inequalities and exclusion

CCAD, EU and Germany launch virtual platform to promote the restoration of ecosystems in Central America and the Dominic...

(SICA) and with the support of the European Union and the German Federal Government through the regional program Green Development Fund for the SICA region. Its objective is to offer an information ce...

Project for Increasing Ecosystem-based Adaptation Capacity in the Border Biosphere Reserves in the Republic of Haiti and...

The CAReBios Project is a binational initiative focused on increasing ecosystem-based adaptation capacity in the border Biosphere Reserves between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Implemented by the ...

Sectoral Strategic Cooperation Project (PCES) in the veterinary and food safety sector in pig production between Denmar...

The objective of this second phase is to expand technical knowledge to improve strategies for the analysis of toxic residues in foods of animal origin and in the field of microbiology and genomic sequ...

Partial Scope Economic Complementation Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua and the Government...

The purpose of the Partial Scope Agreement between Ecuador and Nicaragua is the granting of tariff preferences and the elimination of non-tariff restrictions to strengthen and boost their trade flows,...