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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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Legislative Decree No. 3144 - Law on the promotion of hygienic production of milk and dairy products and regulation of t...

The law establishes that all dairy industrial plants must obtain the approval of the Ministries of Agriculture and Livestock and Public Health and Social Assistance to operate, ensuring that their fac...

Law No. 17997. National Livestock Information System (SNIG)

The National Livestock Information System (SNIG) is an information system whose main objective is to ensure the traceability of cattle from the animal's establishment of origin to the slaughterhouse, ...

Legislative Decree No. 819 Law for the acquisition and consumption of fluid milk and its derivatives, by institutions th...

The Law for the Acquisition and Consumption of Fluid Milk and its Derivatives, decreed by the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, has as its main objective to regulate the consumption and state purch...

Law 2409 which promotes the development of the agricultural and rural sector in Colombia

A law aimed at promoting the development of the agricultural and rural sector through financing measures, rural financial inclusion, and the modernization of agriculture. The law promotes agricultural...

Implementation- Ongoing

Costa Rica Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

Costa Rica’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy establishes for the first time a standardized definition of what constitutes an environmentally sustainable investment in the country. This framework provid...

Peru: Section One of the Regulation of Organization and Functions of Agromercado - Supreme Decree No. 008-2024-MIDAGRI.

Agromercado is attached to the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI) and operates nationwide, with a presence in highland and jungle departments, and gradually on the coast dependi...

Special Law to Promote Competitiveness and Facilitate Access to Products of the Expanded Basic Basket - El Salvador

The Legislative Assembly approved the Special Law to Promote Competitiveness and Facilitate Access to Products of the Expanded Basic Basket, promoted by President Nayib Bukele. This law exempts 120 pr...

Colombia: Law 2378 of 2024 - Establishing Guidelines for the Formulation of the National Agricultural Marketing Policy

Establishes the guidelines for Colombia's National Agricultural Marketing Policy, structured around three components: agricultural production planning, logistics, and commercialization. Its formulatio...

Implementation- Ongoing

(Es) (Ecuador) Executive Decree 323: General Regulations of the Law for the Defense and Development of the Peasant Fami...

The Regulations of the Law for the Defense and Development of the Peasant Family Economy establish the guidelines for regulating this productive modality, recognized for its economic, social, environm...

General Environmental Law (Law No. 41) - Panama

The law establishes the basic principles and standards for the protection, (conservation and recovery of the environment, promoting the sustainable use of natural resources. In addition, it orders env...

Law Nº 8149 - Costa Rica

Law creating the National Institute of Innovation and Transfer in Agricultural Technology (INTA), renamed the National Institute of Innovation and Transfer in Agricultural Technology (INTA), as a body...

MDA ORDINANCE N° 28, OF JUNE 27, 2024 Establishes the criteria and procedures related to the granting and maintenance ...

The Ordinance regulates the criteria and procedures to grant and maintain the right to use the Biofuels Social Seal in Brazil. This seal, awarded by the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agr...