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Policy frameworks

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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National Policy for Integral Rural Development

This policy seeks to achieve progressive and permanent advancement in the quality of life of rural populations in poverty and extreme poverty, with priority on indigenous peoples and peasant communiti...

2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Set of technical guidelines developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to help countries quantify and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals in a consistent, t...

National Food and Nutritional Security System Law

Decree No. 32-2005 states that Food and Nutritional Security is assumed as a comprehensive state policy, within the framework of poverty reduction strategies, and in coherence with global, sectoral, a...

National Policy for the Development of Nicaraguan Youth

The purpose of this Act is to promote the human development of young men and women; guarantee the exercise of their rights and obligations; establish institutional policies and mobilize resources from...

Law on Conservation, Promotion and Sustainable Development of the Forestry Sector

Law No. 462 establishes the legal framework for the conservation, promotion and sustainable development of the forestry sector in Nicaragua, based on natural forest management, plantation promotion an...

Code of Ethics for Fisheries and Aquaculture for El Salvador

The Code of Ethics for Fisheries and Aquaculture for El Salvador is a complementary normative instrument designed to promote responsible fishing and sustainable development of fisheries and aquacultur...

Law No. 9,795: Environmental Education Law

Establishes the regulatory framework for environmental education in Brazil, instituting the National Environmental Education Policy as an essential and permanent component of the national education sy...

National Central School of Agriculture (ENCA), Organic Law (Decree No. 51-86, Congress of the Republic)-GUATEMALA

The National Central School of Agriculture (ENCA) is a decentralised and autonomous state entity, with legal personality and its own assets and with an indefinite duration. Its headquarters are in the...

Law 970/96 Paraguay

Law approving the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

Law 7472 for the Promotion of Competition and Effective Defense of the Consumer Costa Rica

The purpose of this Law is to effectively protect the rights and legitimate interests of the consumer, the protection and promotion of the process of competition and free concurrence, through the prev...

Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development is a set of 27 principles adopted during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to 14, 1992....

Constitutive Agreement of the Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD)

The Constitutive Agreement of the Central American Commission on Environment and Development is a regional agreement signed in San José on December 12, 1989, by the Presidents of Costa Rica, El Salva...