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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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Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is an international treaty whose main objective is the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity worldwide. It was adopted at the Earth Summ...

Law 123 - Paraguay

Law adopting new phytosanitary protection measures, assigning the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock as the authority responsible for establishing the law's enforcement agencies

Organic Foods Production Act of 1990

An Act to promote the production of organically produced foods through the establishment of a national standard production for organically produced products and providing for the labelling of organica...

Law 21/90 - Paraguay

Law approving and ratifying the agreement on the establishment of the Regional Plant Health Committee (COSAVE)

Law 18910: Replacing the Organic Law of the Institute of Agricultural Development

The purpose of the Agricultural Development Institute shall be to promote the economic, social, and technological development of small agricultural producers and peasants, hereinafter its beneficiarie...

Protected Areas Law, (Decree Number 4-89)- GUATEMALA

The Guatemalan System of Protected Areas (SIGAP) is created, integrated by all the protected areas and entities that administer them, whose organization and characteristics are established by this Law...

Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer of the Vienna Convention has been ratified by all 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Since its entry into force in 1989 a...

General Law of Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection

Regulatory law of Mexico that refers to the preservation and restoration of the ecological balance, as well as the protection of the environment, in the national territory and the areas over which the...

Law 6879 which creates the 1% Tax on the Customs Value of Imported Goods including agri-food products.

A tax of one percent (1%) on the customs value of imported merchandise is the customs value of imported goods, which must be paid at the time of settlement of the corresponding the time of liquidation...

Cooperative Program for the Agri-food and Agro-industrial Technological Development of the Southern Cone.

To contribute to the construction of a Regional Innovation System, focused on the generation of knowledge and technologies to address the demands of the Agri-food and Agro-industrial System within the...

Decree Law 1764 sets the standards for research, production and trade of seeds in Chile

Decree Law No. 1764, updated with modifications until 1994, establishes the legal framework for seed research, production and trade in Chile. Defines seeds, varieties/cultivars, and establishes regula...

State Lands Regulations of Guyana

The State Lands Regulations of Guyana establish the comprehensive regulatory framework for the management, allocation, and use of state lands in Guyana. These regulations detail the procedures for app...