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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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People in a h. phase of food insecurity (ECU)
5,136,000 people were in a heightened phase of food insecurity in Ecuador between December 2025 and March 2026. (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, 2026).
People in food crisis (Ecuador)
2,447,000 people were in a food crisis situation in Ecuador between December 2025 and March 2026. (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, 2026).
People in food emergencies (Ecuador)
95,000 people found themselves in a food emergency situation in Ecuador between December 2025 and March 2026. (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, 2026).
Vulnerability of livestock in Colombia
Between 25% and 30% of the 1,345,000 head of cattle are exposed to disease, death and loss of pastures, with the greatest impact in Arauca, Arauquita and Tame, Colombia. (Fundación Corocoras, 2026).
Impact of climate on agricultural land (COL)
In Arauca, Colombia, there are approximately 482,631 hectares dedicated to agricultural activities at risk due to permanent exposure to flooding. (Fundación Cocoras, 2026).

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Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, adopted on May 22, 2001, has as its main objective to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants. These cont...

Paraguay: Approval of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Law 2309

Paraguays Law 2309, approved on December 3, 2003, approves the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The protocol aims to regulate the transboundary movement of li...

Constitutive Agreement Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America

The agreement establishes the Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (CEPREDENAC) as a regional organization with international and internal legal personality i...

Economic Complementation Agreement No. 46 between the Republic of Cuba and the Republic of Ecuador

The Economic Complementation Agreement between Ecuador and Cuba aims to facilitate, expand, diversify and promote trade between the parties through the granting of tariff and non-tariff preferences. T...

Protocol of amendment to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty

The Protocol of amendment to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty, adopted in Caracas, establishes modifications to the original treaty to strengthen regional cooperation mechanisms in the Amazon. This inter...

INVENTORY: First inventory of GHG emissions and sinks

Greenhouse Gas Inventories (GHGI) comprehensively account for each of the Greenhouse Gases (GHG) produced by human activities and absorbed by natural sinks (forests and oceans) within a country and fo...

Treaty among the Republics of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras for the Implementation of the Trifinio Plan

The Treaty between the Republics of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras for the Execution of the Trifinio Plan is a formalized agreement between these countries with the objective of implementing the...

Constitutive Treaty of the Andean Parliament and Additional Protocol on Direct and Universal Elections

The Constitutive Treaty of the Andean Parliament establishes a common deliberative body of the Andean Integration System that represents the peoples of the Andean Community, constituted by representat...

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertificati...

The Convention's fundamental objective is to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through effective measures at the national and international level, recognizing desertification ...

United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

The objectives of the Convention are the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization o...

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertificati...

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification entered into force in 1996 and has been ratified by the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is the only binding international ag...

Agriculture Chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

NAFTA's Agricultural Chapter established the framework for the gradual liberalization of agricultural trade between Mexico, the United States and Canada. This historic agreement progressively eliminat...