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Initiatives are interventions that can take the form of laws, guidelines, incentives, among others, which are often reflected in allocations of public and private resources.

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Crop prices rise 13% in Q3 2026
13% was the increase in the Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index in the July-September 2026 quarter, its largest quarterly gain since March 2022; the source links the rise to Black Sea tensions and extreme weather and notes a strengthening El Nino threat...
3 countries with high agricultural impact
3 countries showed a high level of agricultural drought impact in the territorial units reported by GDACS: El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
10 countries affected by drought
10 countries were identified by GDACS as affected by the Central America-2026 drought episode: The Bahamas, Belize, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
840,372 km² under agricultural drought
840,372 km² were experiencing medium agricultural drought impact in the GDACS Central America-2026 episode as of September 29, 2026.
1.33% of area in exceptional drought
1.33% of the area of the United States and Puerto Rico was in exceptional drought (D4), the highest-intensity category of the U.S. Drought Monitor, based on data valid as of September 29, 2026.

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Food security in the face of the pandemic in the Mancomunidad del Norte del Ecuador (MNE)

Project to improve food security of the vulnerable population in the provinces of Esmeraldas, Carchi, Imbabura and Sucumbíos in an inclusive and sustainable way, through immediate nutrition support, i...

Completed

Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems in Peru in a COVID-19 Context

Technical cooperation project aimed at strengthening technical and regulatory policies and instruments for the sustainability and resilience of Peru's food systems in the context of the COVID-19 healt...

Completed

Building Rural Entrepreneurial Capacities Programme: Trust and Opportunity

Rural development programme aimed at improving living conditions, income and employment for some 50,000 rural households living in extreme poverty across 17 departments of Colombia, in post-conflict r...

Completed

Initiatives

Crop prices rise 13% in Q3 2026

3 countries with high agricultural impact

10 countries affected by drought

840,372 km² under agricultural drought

1.33% of area in exceptional drought

Food security in the face of the pandemic in the Mancomunidad del Norte del Ecuador (MNE)

Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems in Peru in a COVID-19 Context

Building Rural Entrepreneurial Capacities Programme: Trust and Opportunity