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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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Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for inclusions and sustainability

The Rethinking Food Markets Initiative aims to identify the multiple obstacles to improving smallholder and medium- and small-sized enterprises (MSME)’s returns to participation in higher value food v...

Implementation- Ongoing

Scaling up continuous improvement in organic banana for family export (BOXF).

Increase production of organic export bananas within family farming by applying continuous improvement and benchmarking, reducing losses, especially due to red spot disease, and improving soil health....

Completed

Mitigate+: Low Emissions Food Systems

The CGIAR Low Emissions Food Systems Initiative, also known as Mitigate+, works closely with key stakeholders in target countries so that they are equipped with the knowledge, information and tools th...

Completed

ESP: Higher Agricultural Production with Lower Nitrous Oxide Emissions

This project aims to increase the productivity of regional crops, such as soybean, corn, rice, wheat, potato, alfalfa, barley, oats, tomato, lotus, desmantus, urochloa, megathrsus and lupine, by more...

Implementation- Ongoing

Sustainable management of irrigation and fertilization in quinoa

This project proposes to advance in this direction by generating knowledge under field conditions and for a wide geographic region, which reaches 25% of the total crop area in South America, and its i...

Implementation- Ongoing

Strengthening of Dairy Goat Production in the Coquimbo Region, Chile

This project is a cooperation agreement with the Institute of Agricultural Development of Chile (INDAP), which aims to enhance the competencies of extension workers and producers in aspects related to...

Implementation- Ongoing

Collective Action: Inclusive Digital Agriculture

The objective is to contribute to providing family and small-scale farmers with the capabilities, models, information and tools to improve their possibilities of taking advantage of the potential of d...

Completed

Strengthening dairy cattle production in the Municipality of Tiahuanacu - Bolivia

Increase milk production in the Municipality of Tiahuanacu by 20%, from 33,019.80 to 39,623.76 liters of milk per year, to ensure supply to the domestic market.

Completed

Scaling continuous improvement in family organic export banana

The project developed ecological intensification strategies such as bagging the banana bud before it opens, monitoring the causes of banana rejects and the frequency of pesticide applications, nutrien...

Implementation- Ongoing

Productive scaling of mortiño to strengthen smallholder family farming. Colombia and Ecuador

The objective of this project is to contribute to the strengthening of food security and household economies through the use of wild mortiño species in southern Colombia (Nariño) and northern Ecuador...

Completed

Project Food Safety EMR

The project Food Safety EMR aims at supporting local SMEs in the transition to the future-proof farming industry. The aim of the project is to provide these enterprises with the newest insights into b...

Implementation- Ongoing

Capacity Building for Farmer Organizations of Family Farming Producers (AFC) in the Northern Border of Ecuador. (ES)

Strengthen the capacities of producers of CFA organizations on the northern border based on the needs identified by the "Sello de la Agricultura Familiar Campesina: Comercialización Asociativa e Inclu...

Completed

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)

Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for inclusions and sustainability

Scaling up continuous improvement in organic banana for family export (BOXF).

Mitigate+: Low Emissions Food Systems

ESP: Higher Agricultural Production with Lower Nitrous Oxide Emissions

Sustainable management of irrigation and fertilization in quinoa

Strengthening of Dairy Goat Production in the Coquimbo Region, Chile

Collective Action: Inclusive Digital Agriculture

Strengthening dairy cattle production in the Municipality of Tiahuanacu - Bolivia

Scaling continuous improvement in family organic export banana

Productive scaling of mortiño to strengthen smallholder family farming. Colombia and Ecuador

Project Food Safety EMR

Capacity Building for Farmer Organizations of Family Farming Producers (AFC) in the Northern Border of Ecuador. (ES)