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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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Productive chains and short circuits: innovations in production and marketing schemes for family farming

The objective of the project was to contribute to the dissemination of production chains and short circuits as new marketing models for Family Farming in the region. Based on the characterization of t...

Completed

PT. Monitoring Forest Cover in Regional Amazonia

Support from the Amazon Fund to contribute to the development of capacity for monitoring deforestation, land use change, and forest use in the member countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organiz...

Completed

Promoting Andean development through the associative agro-industrial value chain

Project for smallholder farmers in the department of Nariño, Colombia, and the provinces of Manabí and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador.

Completed

Implementation of a sustainable alternative for income generation and food security based on guinea pig production for t...

To implement a sustainable alternative for income generation and food security based on guinea pig production for the Indigenous Women’s Association “Esperanza del Mañana,” located in the Panan Resgua...

Completed

Reactivation of bean and quinoa production - Ecuador

The objective of the project is to ensure food security in communities of the cantons of Cañar, Suscal, and El Tambo, belonging to the Cañari Kichwa people of Ecuador.

Completed

Raising small animals in at-risk families of the "Señor de Cautivo" hamlet in the province of Jaén - Peru

To promote the human and productive development of individuals and to guide the sector’s management through a participatory approach, prioritizing the development of diversified activities that genera...

Completed

Recovery and socioeconomic valorization of quinoa and sugarcane cultivation - Bolivia

Economic income and food security of farming families have been improved through the revaluation of agroecological cultivation of quinoa and cañahua, the strengthening of local Indigenous organization...

Completed

Comprehensive and sustainable community plots for self-sufficient communities. - Bolivia.

To improve the quality of life of beneficiaries through diversified and sustainable agricultural productivity, using Community Integral Plots that ensure the community’s food security and generate sta...

Completed

Rural women and entrepreneurs integrated into the farmers' market AMOJU.

The project focused on the development of complementary activities to coffee production for food security, income generation, and sustainable employment in the border area between Peru and Ecuador.

Completed

Sustainable fish farming in the Ecuadorian Amazon

The project involves constructing 60 fish farms for the breeding of native fish species, to ensure food security for residents while also serving as an alternative to environmentally destructive activ...

Completed

Building sustainable commercial dynamism in cattle fattening business on the Peru-Bolivia border.

The project aims to improve the living conditions of the residents of Huayrapata and Moho, Puno, by enhancing the commercialization of cattle. The goal is to establish a mechanism that ensures the sus...

Completed

Green MSMEs I

Green MiPymes is an initiative that integrates the efforts of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) with the financial support of the Government of Germany, through KfW and the Eu...

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)

Productive chains and short circuits: innovations in production and marketing schemes for family farming

PT. Monitoring Forest Cover in Regional Amazonia

Promoting Andean development through the associative agro-industrial value chain

Implementation of a sustainable alternative for income generation and food security based on guinea pig production for t...

Reactivation of bean and quinoa production - Ecuador

Raising small animals in at-risk families of the "Señor de Cautivo" hamlet in the province of Jaén - Peru

Recovery and socioeconomic valorization of quinoa and sugarcane cultivation - Bolivia

Comprehensive and sustainable community plots for self-sufficient communities. - Bolivia.

Rural women and entrepreneurs integrated into the farmers' market AMOJU.

Sustainable fish farming in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Building sustainable commercial dynamism in cattle fattening business on the Peru-Bolivia border.

Green MSMEs I