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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 price increase
The price of basic foodstuffs increased by 6.1% after two months of blockade in Hormuz (INFOBAE, 2026).
Barriers for agrifood companies.
83% of firms finance their investments primarily with their own resources.
Peru: 2015 El Niño raised pesticide exposure risk
The study maps 1,793 of 1,874 Peruvian districts (95.7%), with moderate-to-high risk zones covering over one-third of the national territory, indicating ENSO events amplify pesticide dispersal. (Honles,J. et al, 2026)
Peru: 436 cancer hotspots linked to pesticide
The excessive or inappropriate use of pesticides is strongly linked to an alarming increase in cancer cases, with 436 risk zones identified in Peru, concentrated in the Western Andes and the southern coast.(Honles,J. et al, 2026)
Dry Corridor and Caribbean face drought risks
The LAC agricultural sector absorbs 26% of climate disaster damages on average—rising to 82% during droughts—while equatorial Pacific warming further cripples Caribbean coastal fisheries.(Castellanos, 2026)

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NDC: Nationally Determined Contribution of El Salvador

El Salvador submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the UNFCCC. Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), which was later adopted in 2015 as its First Nationally Determine...

NDC: Nationally Determined Contribution of Dominican Republic

In its updated NDC, the Dominican Republic commits to a 27% greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction, with 20% conditional and 7% unconditional, by 2030 compared to business as usual. This represents an increas...

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...

Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is an international treaty whose main objective is the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity worldwide. It was adopted at the Earth Summ...

MAPA Ordinance No. 471 of August 10, 2022 establishing the Sectoral Plan for Adaptation and Low Carbon Emissions in Agri...

ABC+ restructures concepts and strategies, maintaining the commitment to sustainability in food, fiber and energy production, promoting resilience and increasing the productivity and income of agricul...

National Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change Colombia

The PNACC defines actions that outline a development path according to which Colombia reacts to the evidence of what climate change implies for social well-being and economic growth, minimizing negati...

Grenada National Agriculture Plan 2015-2030

The National Agricultural Plan is a national sectoral plan of Grenada for the period of 2015-2030. Its main goal is to stimulate economic growth in the agriculture sector through the development of a ...

Final National Climate Change Policy, Strategy and Action Plan for Suriname 2014-2021

The Plan establishes comprehensive guidelines to address climate change through mitigation and adaptation in the national context. The main objective of the plan is to integrate climate change resilie...

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty signed in 1992, which entered into force in 1994. Its primary purpose is to address the global challenges ...

Saint Lucia Climate Change Adaptation Policy

The main objective of the Saint Lucia Climate Change Adaptation Policy is to guide and encourage a national process to address the short, medium and long-term effects of climate change in a coordinate...

NDC: Nationally Determined Contribution of Guatemala

Guatemala's NDC document was prepared under methodological parameters in accordance with the updating of the Greenhouse Gas Inventories presented in the First Biennial Update Report and the Third Nati...

PCI Strategy: Produce, Conserve and Include

The PCI/MT Strategy - PRODUCE, CONSERVE AND INCLUDE in MATO GROSSO (Brazil) has the objective of achieving social and economic development through the sustainable use of the territory. The strategy co...