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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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National Forest Fire Protection Plan 2024

The National Forest Fire Protection Plan 2024 is a comprehensive initiative designed to safeguard Honduras' natural resources and protect its communities from the devastating effects of forest fires. ...

Brazil includes meat in tax-exempt basic food basket

Brazilian government measure including meat products in the tax-exempt basic food basket, with impacts on food security, food access and lower consumer costs.

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EUDR New Provisions: Guidance Document for Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products

The European Commission's Guidance Document published on August 12, 2025, provides non-binding guidelines to facilitate harmonized implementation of Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free pro...

Resolution No. 091-2023 extending the validity of the Panama Agro Solidarity Credit Program for the livestock activity o...

This resolution extends the validity of Decree No. 052 of March 27, 2020. The Panama Agro Solidario Program for Food Security establishes the financial strategies to be followed in the agricultural se...

European Union Regulation 2023/1115 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing on the Union ma...

With this Regulation, the EU is taking measures to minimize as much as possible the global deforestation and forest production driven by the consumption of certain raw materials and products. In doing...

Institutional Supply Program Regulations

The Institutional Supply Program (PAI) Regulations establish the rules for the supply and distribution of agricultural, fishery and aquaculture products to Costa Rican public sector entities, prioriti...

Costa Rica: Sustainable Livestock Strategy for Meat and Dairy Production Chains 2023-2028

The Strategy aims to sustainably transform the meat and milk production chains in Costa Rica. It seeks to improve productivity, profitability, and animal welfare, while mitigating the effects of clima...

Peru: Regulations for the conceptualization, management, operation and control of the Register of Agricultural Producers...

The purpose of these regulations is to define the mechanisms necessary to conceptualize, manage, operate and supervise the Register of Agricultural Producers and their organizations within the value c...

Peru: Sanitary Regulations for the Production and Commercialization of Genetic Material of Production Animals (DS N° 01...

The Sanitary Regulations for the Production and Marketing of Genetic Material of Production Animals, approved by Supreme Decree No. 010-2022-MIDAGRI, establishes provisions for the application of sani...

Philippines Extends Import Tariff Reductions on Rice and Pork, and Temporarily Reduces Import Tariffs on Corn and Coal ...

The Government of the Philippines extends tariff reductions on imports of rice and pork, and temporarily reduces import tariffs on corn and charcoal products. The decision was made to mitigate the imp...

Nicaragua expands duty-free chicken meat import quotas/n

Within the framework of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), the Government of Nicaragua will open an additional 1,533 metric tons of duty-free imported chicken meat...

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...