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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 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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Support to the Government of Haiti for the socio-economic empowerment of rural women (FR)

The main actions of the strategy are the granting of training in areas of interest to women in the agricultural sector, and in rural areas, such as business and financial management, female leadership...

€mprende project

The project articulated its intervention around three lines of action&%2358; the promotion of micro and small enterprises (MSEs), the issue of gender and territorial/local development, and was aimed a...

Peru: National Development and Social Inclusion Strategy “Inclusion for Growth”

The Strategy established a general framework for the development and social inclusion policy, articulating the interventions of the three levels of government based on priority results, respecting the...

Regional environmental strategy 2021-2025 in Central America

The ERAM has been formulated in a harmonized manner with the global regulatory framework on environmental matters, especially the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Ag...

National Agricultural Strategy for Rural Women (ENARM)

This Strategy promotes the visibility of the role played by rural women in peasant family farming and in food sovereignty, to guarantee equitable access to sustainable and sustainable production. In a...

Paraguays National Gender Plan on Climate Change

Paraguays National Gender Plan on Climate Change is a document prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADES) in 2022. The objective of the plan is to contribute to reduci...

Peru: Law No. 30988 to promote the reduction and prevention of food losses and waste

The purpose of this Law is to prevent and reduce food losses and waste throughout the food chain, from primary production to final consumption. To this end, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation ...

Ecuador - Organic Law of Agrobiodiversity, Seeds and Promotion of Sustainable Agriculture

The purpose of this law is to protect, revitalize, multiply, and promote agrobiodiversity concerning phytogenetic resources for food and agriculture; ensure the production and ongoing free access to q...

Argentina - National Plan for the Reduction of Food Losses and Food Waste - Law 27454

The objective of this law is to reduce and eliminate Food Losses and Waste (FWL), through the empowerment and mobilization of producers, processors, distributors, consumers and associations; giving sp...

Decree No. 616 - Special and Transitory Provisions for the Purchase Operations of Corn, Beans, and Rice for Human Consum...

Temporary elimination of import tariffs under "shortage quotas" for certain products, for example, for paddy rice (import quota of 20,000 metric tons); for corn (yellow corn) (import quota of 180,000 ...

Bolivia - Law Nº 775 - Law for the promotion of healthy eating.

The purpose of this Law is to establish guidelines and mechanisms to promote healthy eating habits in the Bolivian population, in order to prevent chronic diet-related diseases.

Law No. 14,284 establishes the Auxílio Brasil Program and the Alimenta Brasil Program to replace the Bolsa Família Pro...

Auxílio Brasil integrates several public policies on social assistance, health, education, employment and income into a single social program of direct and indirect income transfers aimed at families...