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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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Integrating sorghum cultivation into agricultural systems in the Central American Dry Corridor

The project establishes a regional partnership for the sustainable intensification of the Dry Corridor through the integration of climate-resilient sorghum and forage crop genotypes. Through soil char...

Implementation- Ongoing

Innovations to reduce methane emissions in ruminants

Applied research and technology validation project to reduce by 10% the emission intensity (g CO2e/kg of meat) in pasture-based cattle production systems in Latin America. It develops three innovation...

Implementation- Ongoing

Nitrogen Optimization: Strategies for Addressing the Climate Crisis in Food Production

This project establishes a technical network across five countries (including the Dominican Republic and Panama) to optimize the use of nitrogen fertilizers through the 4R strategy. Its goal is to inc...

Implementation- Ongoing

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

Integrating sorghum cultivation into agricultural systems in the Central American Dry Corridor

Innovations to reduce methane emissions in ruminants

Nitrogen Optimization: Strategies for Addressing the Climate Crisis in Food Production