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Initiatives

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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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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Soft loans in support of food security

In order to achieve the goal of guaranteeing food security, as part of these efforts, the Banco de Fomento Agropecuario (BFA) has placed more than $10 million in loans at subsidized rates of 4% per an...

Completed

Rehabilitation of wells and pumping stations to increase the productive capacity of the Zapotitán Irrigation and Drainag...

Improve the efficiency in the use of water resources in the district, through the rehabilitation of the irrigation infrastructure and its equipment, to recover its productive capacity, contributing to...

Completed

Innovatech Project

The project aims to develop digital agricultural (AgriTech) and financial (FinTech) solutions to facilitate small farmers' market access and financial and non-financial services in Bolivia, El Salvado...

Implementation- Ongoing

Promoting Water Security in the Trifinio Region

The project aims to improve the living conditions of women in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focuses on trinational cooperation for int...

Implementation- Ongoing

AgriLAC Resiliente: Resilient Agrifood Innovation Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

Resilient AgriLAC is an initiative co-designed to transform agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. It aims to increase the resilience, ecosystem services and competitiveness of these sys...

Implementation- Ongoing

AL-INVEST Green of the European Union

EU-LA Alliance for Sustainable Growth and Employment (Al Invest Verde) The new edition of AL-INVEST (Al INVEST Verde), financed with 33 million euros by the European Commission, has the global objecti...

Implementation- Ongoing

Hand-in-hand

Hand-in-Hand is a FAO initiative designed to accelerate the transformation of agri-food systems to meet the SDGs with more than 70 member countries.

Implementation- Ongoing

Greenhouses 2.0: Technology and innovation adoption for small agricultural producers in El Salvador

Pilot project implemented by the "Canasta Campesina" Cooperative with BID Lab funding that seeks to make production, quality and market processes more efficient through precision agriculture and data...

Implementation- Ongoing

Ecosystem-based Adaptation to increase climate resilience in the Central American Dry Corridor and the Arid Zones of the...

The programme implemented with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration aims to strengthen the adaptive capacity and climate resilience of vulnerable, rural communities, including farmers an...

Development-design

ESP: Strengthening Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Extremely Poor Municipalities in El Salvador and Strengthening Agric...

Strengthen local capacities through community entrepreneurship as a strategy for food security and income generation in poor municipalities in El Salvador.

Implementation- Ongoing

ESP: Development of the Agricultural Sector with a Systemic Approach to Agriculture

Support to ENA in the technical and administrative co-execution of Public Investment Project 6882, Transformation of the National School of Agriculture "Roberto Quiñonez" (ENA) into a Higher Level Spe...

Implementation- Ongoing

ESP: Rehabilitación de Infraestructura y Suministro de Mobiliario Básico de Dormitorios, Aulas y Laboratorio de la Escue...

El proyecto busca apoyar a la ENA en la coejecución técnica y administrativa del proyecto para la rehabilitación de infraestructura y suministro de mobiliario de dormitorios y aulas de la Escuela Naci...

Implementation- Ongoing

Initiatives

Food and post-production costs (2025)

Average cost of a healthy diet in LAC (2025)

Global average cost of a healthy diet (2025)

Evidencia

World population with food insecurity (2025)

Soft loans in support of food security

Rehabilitation of wells and pumping stations to increase the productive capacity of the Zapotitán Irrigation and Drainag...

Innovatech Project

Promoting Water Security in the Trifinio Region

AgriLAC Resiliente: Resilient Agrifood Innovation Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

AL-INVEST Green of the European Union

Hand-in-hand

Greenhouses 2.0: Technology and innovation adoption for small agricultural producers in El Salvador

Ecosystem-based Adaptation to increase climate resilience in the Central American Dry Corridor and the Arid Zones of the...

ESP: Strengthening Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Extremely Poor Municipalities in El Salvador and Strengthening Agric...

ESP: Development of the Agricultural Sector with a Systemic Approach to Agriculture

ESP: Rehabilitación de Infraestructura y Suministro de Mobiliario Básico de Dormitorios, Aulas y Laboratorio de la Escue...