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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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Law No. 811 Chain organizations in the agricultural, fishing, forestry, and aquaculture sectors, and agrarian transforma...

This Law creates chain organizations in the agricultural, fishing, forestry, and aquaculture sectors in order to improve productivity and competitiveness, develop the market for goods and factors in t...

Law 731 of 2002 which dictates rules to favor rural women

This Law dictates rules that favor rural women, which it defines as all those who, without distinction of any nature and regardless of the place where they live, their productive activity is directly ...

Law 740 of 2002 ratifying Colombia's adherence to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

Approving the "Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity", done in Montreal.

Law 731 of 2002 (Colombia)

Law 731 of 2002 is a regulation that aims to improve the quality of life of rural women, prioritizing those with low income. It establishes measures to accelerate equity between rural men and women, i...

National Development Plan "Towards a Community State" of Colombia 2002-2006

The 2002-2006 National Development Plan pursues four fundamental objectives: provide democratic security, promote sustainable economic growth and job creation, build social equity, and increase the tr...

Protocol of amendment to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty

The Protocol of amendment to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty, adopted in Caracas, establishes modifications to the original treaty to strengthen regional cooperation mechanisms in the Amazon. This inter...

Law 1179 (Colombia)

ARTICLE 3. Competencies of the departments. Without prejudice to what is established in other legal regulations, it is up to the departments to exercise the following powers related to the provision o...

Constitutive Treaty of the Andean Parliament and Additional Protocol on Direct and Universal Elections

The Constitutive Treaty of the Andean Parliament establishes a common deliberative body of the Andean Integration System that represents the peoples of the Andean Community, constituted by representat...

Law N 302 - Creates the Agricultural Solidarity Fund (FONSA) Colombia

Law 302 establishes the creation of the Agricultural Solidarity Fund, a special account attached to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, specifically intended to financially support smal...

Colombia: Decree 1840 of 1994 - Regulatory Decree Implementing Article 65 of Law 101 of 1993

Implements Article 65 of Law 101 of 1993 and establishes Colombia's national regulatory framework for agricultural health protection, defining the ICA's authority over animal health, plant health, and...

Implementation- Ongoing

Decree 626 Incentive for Rural Capitalization in Colombia

Decree 626 of 1994 establishes provisions on the Rural Capitalization Incentive (ICR). This incentive is presented as a personal and non-transferable right aimed at natural or legal persons that carry...

General Law for Agricultural, Livestock and Fisheries Development 101 of 1993

This proposal aims to protect the development of agricultural and fishing activities and promote the improvement of the income and quality of life of rural producers by means of the following actions:...