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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 price increase
The price of basic foodstuffs increased by 6.1% after two months of blockade in Hormuz (INFOBAE, 2026).
Barriers for agrifood companies.
83% of firms finance their investments primarily with their own resources.
Peru: 2015 El Niño raised pesticide exposure risk
The study maps 1,793 of 1,874 Peruvian districts (95.7%), with moderate-to-high risk zones covering over one-third of the national territory, indicating ENSO events amplify pesticide dispersal. (Honles,J. et al, 2026)
Peru: 436 cancer hotspots linked to pesticide
The excessive or inappropriate use of pesticides is strongly linked to an alarming increase in cancer cases, with 436 risk zones identified in Peru, concentrated in the Western Andes and the southern coast.(Honles,J. et al, 2026)
Dry Corridor and Caribbean face drought risks
The LAC agricultural sector absorbs 26% of climate disaster damages on average—rising to 82% during droughts—while equatorial Pacific warming further cripples Caribbean coastal fisheries.(Castellanos, 2026)

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Chocolate Island — Cocoa, Carbon and Community

The objective of the project is to propel the Trinidad and Tobago cocoa and chocolate industry forward in a post pandemic and ESGcompliant world, by providing an innovative approach to attracting impa...

Implementation- Ongoing

Initiatives

Food price increase

Barriers for agrifood companies.

Peru: 2015 El Niño raised pesticide exposure risk

Peru: 436 cancer hotspots linked to pesticide

Dry Corridor and Caribbean face drought risks

Chocolate Island — Cocoa, Carbon and Community