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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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FRAMEWORK LAW TO REGULATE VULNERABILITY REDUCTION, MANDATORY ADAPTATION TO THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND GREENHOUSE...

The purpose of this law is to establish the necessary regulations to prevent, plan and respond in an urgent, adequate, coordinated and sustained manner to the impacts of climate change in the country....

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...

NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS: Second National Communication of Guatemala

Based on the commitments that Guatemala acquired before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the SCN establishes the country's reports to the Conference of the Parties (...

Accelerating Progress on Rural Womens Economic Empowerment Project

The project was formulated to increase the productive potential of rural women through their access to and control of productive resources and essential services for food security and nutrition, incre...

National Policy for the Promotion and Comprehensive Development of Women and the Equal Opportunities Plan 2008-2023

The Policy promotes the comprehensive development of Mayan, Garifuna, Xinka and mestizo women in all spheres of economic, social, political and cultural life, through axes focused on economic and prod...

National Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction

The National Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction is the product of a collective process of social construction of solutions collected and systematized by the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction...

Climate Change Strategic Plan

The plan addresses three strategic axes, the first is Adaptation to Climate Change, the second addresses Climate Change Mitigation and the Third focuses on the Institutional Strengthening of the MAGA.

Guatemala: Strategic Grain Commodity Reserve Program/n

The objective of this program is to contribute to the food security of thousands of Guatemalan families and reduce the impact of a possible price crisis due to factors such as the risk of natural disa...

Law on Temporary Social Support for Consumers of Diesel and Regular and Superior Gasoline (Decree No. 28-2022)/n

Due to the serious world fuel price crisis, derived from the war in Ukraine, the Government of Guatemala will maintain the subsidy on gasoline and diesel in order to support the economy of Guatemalan ...

Crisis Response and Recovery Development Policies in Guatemala (Decree No. 29-2022)

The Cooperation Agreement between Guatemala and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). The regulation aims to support the countrys economic recovery in the face of the negat...

Roadmap Guatemala

The roadmap proposed by Guatemala harmonizes the strategic framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with its public policies. Food and nutritional security is defined as one of the nation...

NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS: Guatemala's first national communication

The report containing Guatemala's First Communication on Climate Change is based on the results of the greenhouse gas inventory, on the preparation of climatic, environmental and socio-economic scenar...