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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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Ecuador - Organic law for the development of aquaculture and fisheries

The purpose of this Law is to establish the legal regime for the development of aquaculture and fishing activities in all their phases of extraction, harvesting, reproduction, breeding, raising, culti...

Ecuador - Food labelling law - Ministerial Agreement 5103

The purpose of this Regulation is to regulate and control the labelling of processed foods for human consumption, in order to guarantee the constitutional right of individuals to timely, clear, accura...

Ecuador - Organic Law on Water Resources: Uses and Development of Water

The purpose of this law is to guarantee the human right to water as well as to regulate and control the authorisation, management, preservation, conservation and restoration of water resources.

National Greenhouse Gas Inventory of Ecuador

According to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines, the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory – INGEI, quantifies anthropogenic emissions at the country level, classified by sources, and absorptions by sinks. INGEIs...

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...

Network of Extended Consulates in Latin America and the Caribbean

The GRULAC aka El Grupo América Latina y el Caribe (The Latin America and the Caribbean Group) established a coordination to ensure a safer and more orderly departure of Latin American citizens from ...

NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS: Third National Communication of Ecuador

The Third National Communication is an example of the country's commitment and capacity to work jointly with the different levels of government and other sectors of civil society in the face of the ch...

BUR1: First Biennial Update Report of Ecuador

The contents of the Report were based on the Convention's guidelines in relation to the presentation, detailed in Annex III of the Decision 2/CP17, which establishes the scope of the document, in rela...

Climate change, adaptation and mitigation strategy for Esmeraldas, Canton.

The Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy for Esmeraldas is a document prepared by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition of Ecuador (MAATE) in 2022. The objective of the strategy i...

National Development Plan: A Lifetime

The National Development Plan is a multi-sector instrument of national scope, relating to the period 2017-2021, which establishes nine objectives structured around three main Axes, namely: 1) Rights f...

NDC: Nationally Determined Contribution of Ecuador

Ecuador spares no effort to join the global fight to combat climate change according to its capabilities, despite the fact that it is responsible for a minimal percentage of greenhouse gas emissions i...

Quito Climate Action Plan

The plan details the way forward to make Quito a greenhouse gas neutral and climate resilient city by 2050, using a phased approach by identifying goals, targets and priority actions for the short (20...