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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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Costa Rica: Sustainable Livestock Strategy for Meat and Dairy Production Chains 2023-2028

The Strategy aims to sustainably transform the meat and milk production chains in Costa Rica. It seeks to improve productivity, profitability, and animal welfare, while mitigating the effects of clima...

National Circular Economy Strategy

The construction of Costa Rica's National Circular Economy Strategy (ENEC) followed a participatory process led by the Intersectoral Committee for the Circular Economy (CIEC), in which strategic repre...

Youth in Costa Rica and social investment in it, 2022

The report analyzes the evolution of social spending targeting Costa Rican youth between 2017 and 2021. It examines budget allocations for key programs such as Avancemos and Crecemos, their coverage, ...

National Development and Public Investment Plan of the Bicentennial (Costa Rica)

The National Development and Public Investment Plan (PNDIP) is an instrument for the formulation of strategic priorities for the development of the country. It is built from the best international pra...

Public Policy for the Costa Rican Agricultural Sector 2023–2032

With this Policy, we aim to implement a series of concrete actions, already identified, aimed at revitalizing an economic sector that is not only important but essential for rural development. By leve...

Credit and Grant Agreements between the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Corporación Andina de Fomento - Development Bank f...

The agreement, which positions Colombia globally as a leader in agricultural sector adaptation to the impacts and effects of climate change, is characterized by favourable credit conditions for the co...

Executive Decree 43786-MEIC-COMEX on the understanding of compensation with the Federative Republic of Brazil and Costa ...

This understanding is due to the application of a safeguard measure to imports of sugar in solid, granulated state, known as white sugar, which is used for domestic and industrial consumption.

Executive Decree 43670-MTSS-H-MDHlS creating the temporary inflation benefit or inflation subsidy. (Not in Force)

The Instituto Mixto de Ayuda Social (IMAS) established the Temporary Inflation Allowance for households in extreme poverty and poverty, which will represent a total estimated at ₡20,000 million, tar...

Project "Towards the Integrated Management of Transboundary Water Resources (IWRM) of the Sixaola River Basin shared by...

This project seeks to create long-term conditions for better shared governance of the basin, with timely information for the Integrated Management of Water Resources in the Binational Basin of the Six...

Executive Decree No. 43750-MAG-MEIC- COMEX for the authorization of bean imports due to shortages in the domestic market...

This decree authorizes the importation of 5,231 metric tons of beans, with a zero percent (0%) import tariff rate.

Executive Decree No. 43642-MAG-MEIC-COMEX modifying the tariff duties on imports of rice in grain and milled form

This decree modifies the Import Tariff Duties (DAI) for paddy and milled rice contemplated in the Central American Import Tariff. Therefore, a tariff of 3.5% is applied to tariff code 1006.10.90.00 (p...

Executive Decree 43643-MEIC repealing the pricing of grain in the country through the repeal of Executive Decree 38.884.

This decree repeals the reference price of paddy rice; and the maximum and minimum price of all qualities of milled rice and updating of cost model structures of agricultural production of paddy rice ...