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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 and post-production costs (2025)
Post-farmgate activities account for 70 to 75 percent of what consumers pay. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026).
Average cost of a healthy diet in LAC (2025)
The average cost of a healthy diet in Latin America and the Caribbean was $4.91 purchasing power parity (PPP) per person per day. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2026).
Global average cost of a healthy diet (2025)
The global average cost of a healthy diet rose to $4.28 purchasing power parity (PPP) per person per day. (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2026).
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World population with food insecurity (2025)
Around 2.1 billion people (25.8% of the world's population) experienced moderate or severe food insecurity in 2025. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2026).

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China approves drought-tolerant soybeans from Argentinas Bioceres

China has approved the drought-tolerant HB4 soybean event developed by the Argentinean biotechnology company Bioceres, which will contribute to increasing the South American countrys exports of this g...

Guatemalas National Emergency Program in the Face of the - Russia-Ukraine Conflict Tariff Quotas

Among the budgetary actions of the MAGA (National Reserve of Basic Grains, Agricultural Development Stipend Program) and MINECO (Activation of tariff quotas)

Peru: Regulations for the Classification of Land by Their Capacity for Greater Use (Supreme Decree No. 05-2022-MIDAGRI)

The purpose of these Regulations, approved by Supreme Decree No. 05-2022-MIDAGRI, is to establish the rules that regulate the procedure for the Classification of Land according to its Major Use Capaci...

Law 10211. amending the Labour Code to combat labour discrimination against women in maternity conditions

(EN) Amendment of articles 94, 94 BIS, 95, 96, 97 and 100, and addition of a subsection K) to article 70 of Law 2, Labor Code. A paid paternity leave of two days per week is established for the biolog...

Water Use Rights (Chile)

The DAA are exercised proportionally to the real and instantaneous flow of the respective channel, which is variable (aliquot, pro rata or shift distribution system). The DAA can be consumptive and no...

National Water Resources Policy (Panama)

The present PAGIRH 2022-2026 aims to contribute to the increase in the Water Security of Panama, through the prioritization of concrete actions that allow accelerated progress in the implementation of...

Water Code LAW 21435 (Chile)

Among its priorities is the registration and regularization of water rights, both surface and underground. Published in April 2022. Prioritizing human consumption, domestic subsistence use (water that...

Ottawa Group: Trade Facilitation Measures Taken in Response to COVID-19.

Temporary elimination of import licensing requirements on certain products (exemption from the license of the Subsecretariat of Foreign Trade Operations " SUEXT") used in the treatment of COVID-19

Agriculture and Fisheries Incentives (Amendment) Act, no. 8, 2022. of Saint Lucia

This law amends the Agriculture and Fisheries Incentives Law No. 13 of 2014. These amendments include updating key definitions to expand the scope of what is considered agricultural and fishery produc...

Peru: Regulations for the Use of the "AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR DEL PERÚ" certification mark (Ministerial Resolution No. 008...

The purpose of these Regulations is to establish the provisions that regulate the use of the “AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR DEL PERÚ” certification mark and its logo, applicable to agricultural products f...

European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2022

The purpose of these Regulations is to give effect to Irelands Nitrates Action Programme pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrat...

Inter-American Model Care Act

This Model Law represents a tool of regional scope that seeks to respond to the care crisis and establish the basis for a new pact in the social organization of care, which redefines its role in socie...