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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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Special Transitory Law to combat inflation and prices of basic products

The purpose of this law is to ensure the population's supply of basic basket products through urgent and temporary measures; as well as, reduce the costs of importing inputs for agricultural productio...

Paraguay - Law establishing the special regime for food donation of September 2020.

This law creates the Special Regime for the Donation of Food suitable for human consumption, which will aim to contribute to meeting the food needs of the most economically vulnerable population.

Agreement No. 39. Fixing maximum prices of essential food products.

This agreement modifies Agreement No. 37 dated April 17, 2020, which in turn modified Agreement No. 33 dated March 30, 2020 and Agreement No. 27 dated March 19, 2020. 27 dated March 19, 2020, modifyin...

Decree No. 051 of March 27, 2020 establishing the Panama Agro Solidarity Credit Program for the agricultural activity of...

The Panama Agro Solidario Program for food security establishes the financial strategies to be followed in the agricultural sector to face the challenges associated with COVID-19. This program plans t...

Technical - administrative guidelines, standards and minimum conditions of the School Feeding Program – PAE (Resolutio...

That within the framework of the declaration of the State of Economic, Social and Ecological Emergency carried out by the National Government, it became necessary for the Special Administrative Unit f...

Ecuador - Organic Law on School Feeding

The purpose of this Law is to guarantee the right to food and nutrition in a sustainable manner for girls, boys and adolescents of school age, part of the National Education System, for the enjoyment ...

Agreement No. 37. Fixing maximum prices of essential food products.

Agreement No. 33, dated March 30, 2020, which in turn modified Agreement No. 27 dated March 19, 2020, is amended, modifying and fixing maximum prices of specific and general brand listings of the foll...

Eurasian Economic Union: Temporary export ban on certain food products due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Temporary export ban on certain food products (e.g. bulb onions; garlic; turnips; rye; rice; buckwheat; millet; cereal groats; meal and pellets; buckwheat grains pearled; soya beans, whether or not b...

Agreement No. 33 - Establishment of maximum prices for essential food products

This modifies Agreement No. 27 dated March 19, 2020, through which maximum prices were set for products considered essential, including beans, rice, corn, powdered milk, and eggs. The current agreemen...

Executive Decree No. 400 of March 27, 2020 establishing the Panama Solidarity Program.

The purpose of this program is to offer assistance such as food bags, physical vouchers and digital vouchers to the most vulnerable social groups economically affected by the pandemic.

Agreements Nos. 501, 502, and 503 - Various contingency plans for the shortage of paddy rice, yellow corn, and white cor...

This agreement (Agreements Nos. 501, 502, and 503) establishes the availability of a contingency to address the shortage of paddy rice, classified under tariff subheading 1006.10.90.00 "--Others," wit...

Legislative Decree No. 471 of 2020: Decree on Agricultural Input Pricing Policy

The Decree subjects the key products used for agricultural production in the national territory to the regime of supervised freedom. Agents can freely determine the prices of agricultural inputs, unde...