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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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The Government of Ecuador will subsidise 50% of the cost of urea.

The total subsidy will be USD 27 million, which will cover 50% of the commercial cost of a 50-kilogram bag of urea, which on average exceeds USD 54. This is part of the compensation and incentive meas...

Russia promises to deliver fertiliser to Brazil despite political juncture.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro that the country will deliver "uninterrupted" supplies of Russian fertilisers to Brazilian farmers. The Russian l...

Peru assists producers in the production of biofertilizers in the face of global crisis/n

As part of the package of biofertilizer measures to address the political crisis in Eastern Europe, Peru is planning to implement an emergency technology transfer and financing program for small produ...

Mexico promotes the development and use of biofertilizers to address food crisis/n

The Mexican authorities, through the Production for Wellbeing Program and the Technical Accompaniment Strategy (EAT), indicated in a press release that, in the following weeks, around 11,000 community...

Honduras approves through an Executive Decree (PCM-04-2022) an allocation of 700 million Lempiras for the Productvo Tech...

The government of Honduras approved an allocation of 700 million Lempiras to be delivered as an incentive for small farmers located in productive areas characterized by high poverty rates. The bonus c...

Fertilizer Shipment Arrives in Panama to Guarantee National Production

The government was able to bring in a ship with 5,500 tons of fertilizers, which will guarantee food production for the general population. In June, 1,000 tons of diammonium phosphate (DAP), which is ...

Peru gives 180 tons of manure to farmers in response to fertilizer hikes/n

Peru delivers 180 tons of island guano, or manure, to nearly 6,000 small farmers in the Chancay valley, north of Lima, to guarantee their crops in the face of rising international fertilizer prices. A...

Special measures to facilitate and guarantee the supply of the nitrogen fertiliser Urea (Emergency Decree No. 013-2022).

This Emergency Decree is issued in the context of the forthcoming start of the 2022-2023 agricultural season as a result of the global shortage of this input due to the ongoing international conflicts...

Measures to facilitate the supply of Urea fertilizer (Emergency Decree No. 013-2022)

The purpose of this Emergency Decree is to issue special and urgent economic and financial measures to facilitate and guarantee the acquisition and delivery of the nitrogen fertilizer Urea for agricul...

To guarantee the supply of Urea Nitrogen Fertilizer for the 2022-2023 Agricultural Campaign (Emergency Decree Nº 013-20...

The purpose of this Emergency Decree is to issue extraordinary and urgent economic and financial measures to facilitate and guarantee the acquisition and delivery of Urea nitrogen fertilizer to agricu...

The government of Guyana announced the purchase of US$1 billion in fertilizers for free distribution to farmers and 25,0...

President Dr. Irfaan Ali said in a broadcast that the subsidy to every household in the riverine and inland communities will inject into the economy and cushion the impacts of the rising cost of livin...

Mexico eliminates antidumping duties on imports of ammonium sulfate

The Federal Government eliminates compensatory quotas on ammonium sulfate imports, expanding the alternatives to increase the supply of fertilizers, which will allow for the availability of around 800...