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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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ESP: Aumento productividad agropecuaria de la agricultura familiar con base a la gestión eficiente de los recursos hídri...

Aumentar la productividad en forma sostenible mediante la validación y difusión de tecnologías de manejo de agua y suelo, en Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panamá, y República Dominicana, y en el contexto de...

Implementation- Ongoing

Sustainable and Inclusive Agricultural Innovation Project

The overall objectives of the project are to improve food security and income for small family farmers. The specific objectives are to increase the profitability, improve the resilience to shocks (wea...

Implementation- Ongoing

Digitalization of Agri-Food Chains in Two Countries of the Region Through Blockchain in the Face of Post-Covid-19 Challe...

The project is the result of the non-reimbursable Technical Cooperation Agreement between the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA...

Completed

Prevention and management of Fusarium wilt

The project aims to strengthen capacities for the prevention and management of Fusarium wilt in Latin America and the Caribbean, through: 1) the standardization of diagnostic methods, 2) the evaluatio...

Implementation- Ongoing

Research-innovation for vegetable production in the Arco Seco region

This project aims to contribute to the improvement of production systems with agro-technologies developed through the project aligned with the demand and aspirations of producers in the areas of irrig...

Implementation- Ongoing

Research - innovation in the formulation of biopesticides with native strains of entomopathogenic fungi for vegetable pe...

This project is oriented to the search for bioinsecticide formulations, based on entomopathogenic fungi that were collected, isolated, purified, morphologically and genetically characterized, as natu...

Implementation- Ongoing

Characterization and use of rhizospheric microorganisms that induce systemic resistance to improve the iron nutrition of...

This project seeks to better understand the similarities between signaling responses to Fe deficiency in dicotyledonous plants and ISR and to study ISR microorganisms (rhizobacteria and fungi) that co...

Implementation- Ongoing

Isolation, identification and characterization of antagonistic and growth-promoting microorganisms in agricultural crops...

This project aims to promote the use of biotic alternatives not only for the sustainable development of the agricultural sector, but also to progressively reduce the use of synthetic phytosanitary pro...

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)

ESP: Aumento productividad agropecuaria de la agricultura familiar con base a la gestión eficiente de los recursos hídri...

Sustainable and Inclusive Agricultural Innovation Project

Digitalization of Agri-Food Chains in Two Countries of the Region Through Blockchain in the Face of Post-Covid-19 Challe...

Prevention and management of Fusarium wilt

Research-innovation for vegetable production in the Arco Seco region

Research - innovation in the formulation of biopesticides with native strains of entomopathogenic fungi for vegetable pe...

Characterization and use of rhizospheric microorganisms that induce systemic resistance to improve the iron nutrition of...

Isolation, identification and characterization of antagonistic and growth-promoting microorganisms in agricultural crops...

Improvement of Creole orange (Citrus sinensis) for resistance to Huanglongbing.

Research and innovation of agroecological pest management in horticultural systems in the Ngäbe Buglé region.

Characterization, evaluation and in vitro conservation of agamic and fruit species.

Research and Innovation Project for the improvement of coffee varieties (Coffea arabica) in Chiriqui.