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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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Alliance for Development in Democracy: Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama

The United States, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Panama signed a memorandum of understanding to advance the U.S.-Alliance for Development in Democracy (ADD) Consultative Dialogue on Supply C...

Rice Road Map

It is a set of proposals aimed at lowering the price of rice in Costa Rica. The initiative reduces the import tariff on rice from 36% to a maximum of 5% by means of Decree 43642 (Available in OPSAa at...

Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity

The Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity is a regional initiative established by twelve democratic countries in the Western Hemisphere with the purpose of responding to the needs of their peop...

President of the Republic signs Amendment to Decree No. 42769-MAG-S-MINAE on agrochemicals

The alteration aims to expand the alternatives to comply with the requirements in the recognition of studies of the Technical Grade Active Ingredient (IAGT) which is the raw material of the formulated...

Costa Rica lifts import restriction on Hass avocado from Mexico

The president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, announced the lifting of the restriction on the import of Mexican avocado that had been in force since 2015, a case that generated a bilateral dispute that...

Joint Declaration on open and predictable trade in agricultural products and foodstuffs

At the General Council of the World Trade Organisation, a group of countries signed their trade commitment to ensure food security in the midst of COVID 19 and the armed conflict between Russia and Uk...

Costa Ricas National Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2022-2026 (PNACC)

The objective is "to guide the actions of the PNACC, during the 2022-2026 period of time, towards the achievement of a development model that guarantees the climate resilience of Costa Rican society, ...

National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change 2022-2026

Costa Rica's National Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2022-2026 has been developed by the Climate Change Directorate (DCC) of the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) and serves as the first Acti...

Law 10211. amending the Labour Code to combat labour discrimination against women in maternity conditions

(EN) Amendment of articles 94, 94 BIS, 95, 96, 97 and 100, and addition of a subsection K) to article 70 of Law 2, Labor Code. A paid paternity leave of two days per week is established for the biolog...

NAMA Musáceas Costa Rica

The Costa Rica Musaceae NAMA, launched in April 2022, aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from banana and plantain production through a series of specific actions. These include: carbon capt...

National Rural Youth Program

The National Rural Youth Program (PRONAJUR) aims to coordinate, guide, and represent the country's rural youth through a network of youth organizations with political, social, and economic impact. It ...

Plan Nacional para el Mejoramiento Genético del Ganado Bovino en Costa Rica 2022 - 2034

El Plan Nacional para el Mejoramiento Genético del Ganado Bovino 2022-2034 en Costa Rica propone optimizar la calidad productiva, reproductiva y adaptativa del hato nacional. Alineado con la Estrateg...