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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 to Stimulate and Control the Production and Marketing of the Barraganete Banana and Other Related Museas, intended ...

The competent authority will set periodically and in United States dollars, the minimum support price, which the banana producer must receive (at the foot of the ship), from any natural or legal perso...

Ecuador Agrarian Development Law

This law incorporates regulations from the Agricultural Promotion and Development Law, covering aspects such as peasant training, land use, agricultural research, peasant business organization, and ec...

Economic Complementation Agreement No. 46 between the Republic of Cuba and the Republic of Ecuador

The Economic Complementation Agreement between Ecuador and Cuba aims to facilitate, expand, diversify and promote trade between the parties through the granting of tariff and non-tariff preferences. T...

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...

QUITO DECLARATION: URBAN AGRICULTURE IN 21ST CENTURY CITIES

The Quito Declaration proposes a series of actions focused on the development and promotion of Urban Agriculture in the cities of Latin America and the Caribbean to confront problems of poverty, food ...

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 No. 3 - Law that protects biodiversity (Ecuador)

Law that protects biodiversity in Ecuador, which consists of 2 articles, establishes that living organisms from any source, terrestrial and marine ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and the ecological com...

Partial Scope Renegotiation Agreement n°29 signed between the Republic of Ecuador and the United Mexican States.

The purpose of the Partial Scope Agreement between Ecuador and Mexico is to integrate into the new regional integration scheme, established by the Montevideo Treaty of 1980, the tariff and non-tariff ...

Cooperative Program for the Agri-food and Agro-industrial Technological Development of the Southern Cone.

To contribute to the construction of a Regional Innovation System, focused on the generation of knowledge and technologies to address the demands of the Agri-food and Agro-industrial System within the...

Cartagena Agreement Agricultural Development Program

It is a regional initiative aimed at promoting sustainable, competitive, and inclusive development of the agricultural sector in the member countries of the Andean Community. Its main objective is to ...

International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention)

The UPOV Convention is an international treaty that provides a legal framework for the protection of new plant varieties, granting exclusive commercial rights to the breeders. To obtain protection, a ...