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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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Special fertilizer plan 2026 – Prolesa

An initiative launched by Prolesa (a company affiliated with Conaprole) to facilitate access to fertilizers for agricultural producers in Uruguay through special commercial terms, financing, and produ...

Implementation- Ongoing

Support for Uruguay’s Productive Transformation Program through Internationalization, Innovation, and Talent

The Technical Cooperation UR-T1343 aims to generate knowledge to support the design and implementation of the loan “Program for the Promotion of Uruguay’s Internationalization” (UR-L1204). It seeks to...

Development-design

Productive Development and Innovation: driving green productive transformation in Latin America

Project objective: to support the region's Innovation Agencies in promoting the transformative innovation required for competitive productive development, in line with global pathways for the green tr...

Implementation- Ongoing

Integration of productive systems as a strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation

This regional project seeks to strengthen the climate resilience and mitigation capacity of livestock systems in Latin America and the Caribbean by integrating trees and forests into traditional lives...

Implementation- Ongoing

Sustainable Livestock Uruguay Project

The objective is to strengthen the sustainability of livestock systems in Uruguay, ensuring their resilience to the impacts of climate change and variability. The project will contribute to national c...

Implementation- Ongoing

Transformadoras 2024 program for rural, agricultural and fishing women

This program is a call for women's groups, collectives or organizations with proposals to promote innovative initiatives aimed at: agri-food systems, climate action and environmental protection, promo...

Implementation- Ongoing

Climate Finance Uruguay

The Climate Finance Uruguay initiative aims to strengthen the capacities of the public, private, and financial sectors to mobilize green investments aligned with the country’s climate commitments. The...

Implementation- Ongoing

Platform for the transfer and efficient use of bioinputs on farms in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

This proposal focuses on addressing existing gaps in the incorporation of bioinputs into technological packages for agricultural farms in Latin America and the Caribbean, aiming to increase sustainabl...

Implementation- Ongoing

Scaling innovation in pastoral systems

Regional technical cooperation project aimed at scaling the adoption of the 3RWeb digital tool to improve pasture and forage reserve management in pastoral systems in Latin America and the Caribbean....

Implementation- Ongoing

Integration of production systems as a strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Regional technical cooperation project aimed at strengthening the resilience and climate change mitigation capacity of livestock systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. It evaluates integration pr...

Implementation- Ongoing

LSQA deforestation-free certification

Certification is based on a methodology that allows the producer or exporter to demonstrate that the plots or facilities where the raw material is produced are free of deforestation as of December 31,...

Team Europe Initiative on Deforestation-free Value Chains

The new Initiative of the EU and its member states is designed to halt deforestation and help partner countries make a successful transition to sustainable, deforestation-free value chains. They annou...

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)

Special fertilizer plan 2026 – Prolesa

Support for Uruguay’s Productive Transformation Program through Internationalization, Innovation, and Talent

Productive Development and Innovation: driving green productive transformation in Latin America

Integration of productive systems as a strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Sustainable Livestock Uruguay Project

Transformadoras 2024 program for rural, agricultural and fishing women

Climate Finance Uruguay

Platform for the transfer and efficient use of bioinputs on farms in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Scaling innovation in pastoral systems

Integration of production systems as a strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation

LSQA deforestation-free certification

Team Europe Initiative on Deforestation-free Value Chains