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Youth: Unfinished Business: Youth Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean (Colombia)

The report analyzes youth political participation in Colombia, highlighting their role in recent social mobilizations and their ambivalent relationship with democracy. Despite facing inequality, unemp...

Public Policy on Agricultural Pesticides 2024-2034 Costa Rica

The Public Policy on Agricultural Pesticides 2024-2034 of Costa Rica is designed to address the comprehensive management of pesticides in the agricultural sector, strengthening food security, good agr...

National Plan for Food Security, Nutrition and Eradication of Hunger, 2025

The plan briefly addresses the Central American regional policy framework, as a first level, and then goes on to review the state of food security in Costa Rica and related public policy instruments.

Decree No 44244 - MAG that amends the Regulations to the Plant Protection Law on Gene Editing

The agricultural standard on genomic editing offers definitions aligned with the Cartagena Protocol, which allow regulation based on an evaluation of the final product in comparison with products obta...

Bill 23,238 Authorizing the Executive Branch to make direct payments to small and medium-sized rice producers.

The purpose of this law is to authorize the Executive Branch to grant subsidies through a single direct payment to rice producers who have planted one hundred hectares or less for rice cultivation, in...

Climate change strategy of San Rafael de Heredia

The climate change strategy for San Rafael de Heredia is based on a diagnosis obtained from the Inventory of greenhouse gas emissions for the canton and community perception. To develop this strategy,...

Forest Law-Costa Rica

Establishes as an essential and priority function of the State, ensuring the conservation, protection and administration of natural forests and the production, use, industrialization and promotion of ...

UNDER DISCUSSION: National Water Policy and a National Water Resources Plan

Decree No. 43458-MINAE declares of public and national interest the National Strategy for the Recovery of Urban Watersheds 2020-2030 Clean Rivers. The authorities of the Ministry of Environment and En...

Preliminary draft of the Law for the Promotion of the Bioeconomy in Costa Rica

The initiative seeks to finance research and development of the bioeconomy and incubation of bioenterprises. This bill, under file number 23868, seeks to promote this activity, understood as the "uti...

Regulations for agricultural aviation activities in Costa Rica

The regulation establishes a set of rules established to regulate the aerial application of agrochemicals in the national territory. This regulation is mandatory for all entities and persons involved ...

Declaration of green alert for the El Niño phenomenon

With the declaration of green alert, the CNE seeks to coordinate with the rest of the institutions in order to minimize its impact on the different sectors, given the possible reduction of: crops, ava...

Institutional Supply Program Regulations

The Institutional Supply Program (PAI) Regulations establish the rules for the supply and distribution of agricultural, fishery and aquaculture products to Costa Rican public sector entities, prioriti...