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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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India's National Afforestation Programme

The overall objective of the National Afforestation Programme (NAP) scheme is ecological restoration of degraded forests and to develop the forest resources with peoples' participation, with focus on ...

National Fruit Program of El Salvador (FRUTAL ES) - Work Report 2000-2003

The National Fruit Program of El Salvador (FRUTAL ES) is a social investment executed by IICA with resources from ANTEL privatization, which seeks to diversify agriculture in the fruit area. During th...

Policy for Gender Equity in Honduran Agriculture (1999-2015)

The policy was created to contribute to the exercise of womens human rights, creating opportunities for their participation in all links of the sustainable agricultural, livestock, forestry and hydrob...

National Central School of Agriculture (ENCA), Organic Law (Decree No. 51-86, Congress of the Republic)-GUATEMALA

The National Central School of Agriculture (ENCA) is a decentralised and autonomous state entity, with legal personality and its own assets and with an indefinite duration. Its headquarters are in the...

Law on use, management and conservation of soils of Costa Rica

The fundamental purpose of the Law is to protect, conserve and improve soils in integrated and sustainable management with other natural resources, through promotion and appropriate environmental plan...

Environmental Law

The purpose of the Environmental Law, enacted in 1998, is to develop the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic relating to environmental protection, conservation and recovery.

Law 988 - Paraguay

Law approving the international convention for the protection of plant varieties

Plant and Animal Health Law - Decree 524

El Salvador's Plant and Animal Health Law establishes the fundamental provisions for the health protection of plants and animals, granting the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock competencies for di...

Brazil - National Programme for the Strengthening of Family Farming (PRONAF)

Finances individual or collective projects that generate income for family and agrarian reform farmers. The programme has the lowest interest rates in rural finance, as well as the lowest default rate...

Law 385 on Seeds and Protection of Cultivars of Paraguay

The law aims to promote an efficient activity and obtain cultivars; seed production, circulation, marketing and quality control; assure farmers and users in general the identity and quality of the see...

Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity is the international instrument for "the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the be...

Law creating the authority for the sustainable management of the Amatitlán Basin and Lake Amatitlán -AMSA- (Government...

The Authority for the Sustainable Management of the Lake Amatitlán Basin, with the specific purpose of planning, coordinating and executing all measures and actions of the public and private sector t...