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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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Peru: Law No. 30021 Law for the promotion of healthy eating for children and adolescents

The purpose of this Law is to promote and guarantee the right to public health, as well as the adequate growth and development of people. To this end, it establishes measures focused on education, the...

Food and Nutrition Security Policy Jamaica

La Política Nacional de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional busca abordar de manera integral los desafíos de seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en el país. Su objetivo principal es garantizar que ...

Law No. 338-Bolivia

The Law on Economic Organizations of Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and Community Economic Organizations for the Integration of Sustainable Family Farming and Food Sovereignty.

Grenada Food and Nutrition Security Plan of Action, 2013 – 2018

El Plan establece un marco de acción para garantizar que todos los granadinos tengan acceso a alimentos seguros, nutritivos, culturalmente aceptables y abundantes en todo momento. Este plan busca pro...

National Hunger Crusade

The National Hunger Crusade is a presidential decision that seeks to guarantee the right to permanent access to adequate food for the 7.01 million Mexicans living in extreme food poverty (extreme pove...

Food and Nutrition Security Policy of Central America and the Dominican Republic 2012-2032

The Food and Nutritional Security Policy of Central America and the Dominican Republic establishes a framework to coordinate food and nutritional security in the region. The policy was approved by sev...

Antigua and Barbuda Food and Nutrition Security Policy 2012

The main objective of the policy is to ensure that all inhabitants have access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy lifestyle. ...

Law 18,832 of October 28, 2011, which creates the Metropolitan Agri-Food Unit as a non-state public law entity (PPnE).

The law aims to develop a wholesale food marketing space that includes the Fruit and Vegetable Market, facilitate and develop food trade and distribution at the national and departmental level and mee...

National food and nutritional security policy of Costa Rica 2011 - 2021

The Food and Nutrition Security Policy (SAN) is an instrument to combat poverty, targeting the most vulnerable sectors, generating income, agricultural productivity and access to goods for national co...

Peru: Food Safety Regulations (Supreme Decree N.° 004-2011-AG)

Supreme Decree No. 004-2011-AG approves the Food Safety Regulation, which establishes the provisions to ensure the sanitary safety of primary agricultural food and animal feed, in order to protect pub...

National Production and Consumption Policy

Colombia's National Sustainable Production and Consumption Policy recognizes the agroindustrial sector as strategic due to its high export and growth potential, especially in areas such as sugar, flow...

Food Production Promotion Program - PPA

The objectives of the PPA are to increase the national production of quality food (both agricultural and livestock), facilitate access to this food for both self-consumption and commercialization in u...