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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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National System of Agricultural Inputs and the Fund for Access to Agricultural Inputs is created (Law No. 2183)

This law seeks to establish the National System of Agricultural Inputs, the National Policy of Agricultural Inputs and create the Fund for Access to Agricultural Inputs. Finally, the regulations conte...

Mexico promotes the development and use of biofertilizers to address food crisis/n

The Mexican authorities, through the Production for Wellbeing Program and the Technical Accompaniment Strategy (EAT), indicated in a press release that, in the following weeks, around 11,000 community...

Peru assists producers in the production of biofertilizers in the face of global crisis/n

As part of the package of biofertilizer measures to address the political crisis in Eastern Europe, Peru is planning to implement an emergency technology transfer and financing program for small produ...

Peru: Creation of the National Seal of Organic Production (Supreme Decree Nº 002-2020-MINAGRI)

Peru was one of the few countries that did not have a distinctive seal for its chemical-free products. This is coming to an end, after MINAGRI approved the creation of a seal that will be placed on th...

Regulation that regulates the Registry of Importers of Agricultural Products (Decree 319-22)

The purpose of this Regulation is to create the Registry of Importers of Agricultural Products (RIMPA), which aims to establish a database of legally constituted natural and legal persons that carry o...

Comprehensive Crop Fertilization Strategy

The strategy contemplates meeting the requirements of the 2022-2023 agricultural campaign; with organic and inorganic inputs, promote the use of ecological fertilization alternatives, such as accelera...

Strategic Plan Argentina Organic 2030 (Resolution No. 17/2021)

The mission of the Plan is to promote the development of the Argentine organic sector to position organic production as a model of differentiation and added value to both primary and industrial produc...

PLANAPO: Plan Nacional for Agroecology and Organic Production

This Plan National for Agroecology and Organic Production (PLANAPO) has six Objectives divided into separate goals and strategies. This National Plan is an important instrument for the consolidation ...

Agrarian Policies of Brasil

Since 2003, the government has pushed for a broad review of its agricultural policy instruments for marketing and income guarantee. The objective is to increase the efficiency of public resources and ...

National Bioinputs Program

The program was instituted by Decree 10.375 and Ordinances 102 and 103, published this Wednesday (27) in the Official Gazette of the Union. The program is one of the pillars of the bioeconomy vision, ...

Goiás State Bioinputs Program

The program aims to expand and strengthen the adoption of practices for the evolution of the agricultural sector in the state of Goaias, with the expansion of the production, development and use of bi...

Draft Resolution creating the category of "Bioinputs" for the authorization and commercialization of inputs/products for...

The project establishes the procedure for the registration, scope, definitions and requirements associated with bioinputs. The project promotes the use of bioinputs. This initiative together with init...