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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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Chicken exports rise 16.5%
3.815 million tonnes of chicken meat were exported by Brazil between January and August 2026, 16.5% more than in the same period of 2025; revenue reached USD 7.543 billion.
Retail potato price rises 69.1%
69.1% was the increase in the retail price of smooth-skinned potatoes in Paraná between August and September 2026, rising from BRL 4.15 to BRL 7.01 per kilogram.
Wheat crop quality deteriorates
182 thousand hectares of wheat remained to be harvested in Paraná: 12% of the area was in poor condition, 42% in average condition, and 46% in good condition.
Production reaches 78.7 million pounds
78.7 million pounds of shrimp were produced by Honduras from January through August 2026, compared with 76 million pounds during the same period of 2025.
Loss of 13 million pounds
13 million pounds of shrimp are estimated to have been lost because of drought and high salinity, reducing the annual production target from 159 million to 146 million pounds.

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Law 2046 of 2020 on Local Public Food Procurement from Small-Scale and Family Farmers

Colombia's Law 2046 of 2020, published on August 6, 2020, establishes mechanisms to promote the participation of local small-scale agricultural producers and producers belonging to Peasant, Family and...

Implementation- Ongoing

Law for Strengthening and Developing the Production, Marketing, Extraction, Export and Industrialization of Oil Palm and...

The Law for Strengthening and Developing the Production, Marketing, Extraction, Export and Industrialization of Oil Palm and Its Derivatives establishes Ecuador's legal framework for promoting and reg...

Implementation- Ongoing

Law 21247

(EN) It enshrines the right to preventive parental medical leave due to the COVID-19 disease for the care of children. It also provides for the right to suspend the effects of the employment contract ...

Guyana`s National Drought Mitigation and Adaptation Plan (EN)(Guyana)

The National Drought Mitigation and Adaptation Plan is a national policy with a cross-sectoral approach. The purpose of the policy is to facilitate proactive, coordinated, and effective planning, prep...

Critical and Direct Assistance Program for Family Farming (Resolution No. 138/2020)

This Resolution establishes the Program of Critical and Direct Assistance for Family Farming, within the scope of the Secretariat of Family, Peasant and Indigenous Agriculture of the Ministry of Agric...

Adequate availability of services for the Export at Origin Programe due to COVID-19 emergency (General Regulations - CVE...

The field of action of the present resolution is targeted to all the Non-Affiliated Plants, where SAG performs the service of phytosanitary inspection, sampling and clearance of approved products, reg...

Law No. 5361 reforming the Organic Charter of the Agricultural Enabling Credit.

This Law governs the Agricultural Enabling Credit, an autarkic entity with its own legal status, assets, accounting and administration. The Law contains the following Chapters: I. Legal regime, purpos...

Normative Instruction No. 30 - National Plan for Prevention and Surveillance of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense Tropica...

Normative instruction that establishes Brazil’s National Plan for Prevention and Surveillance of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (PNPV/Foc TR4), under the National Program for Absen...

Paraguay - Law establishing the special regime for food donation of September 2020.

This law creates the Special Regime for the Donation of Food suitable for human consumption, which will aim to contribute to meeting the food needs of the most economically vulnerable population.

Measures in the agricultural sector to mitigate the economic effects derived from the Coronavirus COVID-19 disease on ag...

It seeks to facilitate the recovery of small and medium producers who have been affected by the health emergency or whose situation has worsened and to promote liquidity in the Colombian countryside. ...

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National Policy on Housing and Human Settlements 2020-2032 -GUATEMALA

The updated PNVAH, with a horizon to the year 2032, proposed as a guiding and articulating instrument for the sectors interventions to achieve impacts that increase the access of families in condition...

Decree 10375_Brasil

It establishes the National Bioinputs Program, within the scope of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, with the aim of expanding and strengthening the use of bioinputs in the country fo...