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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 Blue Carbon Strategy

The National Blue Carbon Strategy establishes a framework that integrates actions related to the management, conservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of blue carbon ecosystems and wetlands with c...

Biomaterials Hub

The objective of the project is to create a program to attract emerging and innovative companies to develop biomaterials that can take advantage of Costa Rica's biodiversity for the development of new...

Law No. 10096 of Rural Development of Costa Rica.

The purpose of this law is to promote the development regional in Costa Rica, for the improvement of the conditions and quality of life of the entire population, respecting the cultural, social, econo...

Alliance for Development in Democracy (ADD)

The Alliance for Development in Democracy is a regional initiative established in September 2021 that brings together Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and the Dominican Republic with a commitment to streng...

Executive Decree No. 43252-MAG-MEIC-COMEX for the authorization to import beans due to shortage in the domestic market

Executive Decree No. 43252-MAG-MEIC-COMEX of September 16, 2021, authorized the importation of 3,286 metric tons of beans, with a zero percent (0%) tariff rate of Import Duties (DAI), as part of the d...

National Bioeconomy Project Portfolio

It was developed by MICITT with the support of the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). To date, the...

UNA Bioeconomy Program

It is an institutional program designed by the National University of Costa Rica that seeks to articulate academic efforts in research, teaching and extension to respond to the problems of national de...

National Care Policy 2021-2031

(EN) Its objective is to progressively implement a system of care for people in a situation of dependency, that is, people who need support and care to carry out their daily activities

Decree No. 42878-MP-MDHIS

(EN) The decree aims to formalize and declare the National Care Policy 2021-2031 and its 2021-2023 action plan to be in the public interest, which aim to progressively implement a system to promote au...

AgroEnvironment Agenda for 2030

The AgroEnvironment Agenda for 2030 is Costa Rica's national strategy that articulates the agricultural and environmental sectors to promote sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient development. ...

NDC: Nationally Determined Contribution of Costa Rica

The NDC is articulated on public policy in several fundamental axes aimed at having a low-carbon and resilient development to the effects of climate change that promotes adaptation and brings co-benef...

Costa Rica National Bioeconomy Strategy 2020-2030

The strategy has five objectives (1) bioeconomy for rural development, (2) biodiversity and development, (3) biorefinery of residual biomass, (4) advanced bioeconomy and (5) urban bioeconomy and green...