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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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Women living in the Amazon Trapeze area. Peru.

They develop their capacities for the comprehensive development of their families, improving their economic situation, health, and status as women in their communities.

Completed

Increase in native potato seed production

The program was developed using geoponic cultivation techniques and the establishment of communal germplasm banks.

Completed

Producing healthy food for self-consumption and marketing in Loja, a border region of Ecuador

The project has been implemented in the Province of Laja, benefiting 107 producers belonging to the Cantonal Union of Peasant Organizations of Paltas (UCOCP) and the Popular Women's Union of Laja (UPM...

Validation of a productive planning system

Agro-industrial processing and marketing of native potatoes with rural smallholder families in the department of Nariño, Colombia, on the border with Ecuador.

Completed

Dry broad bean production, marketing, and processing project

Rescue and Socioeconomic Revaluation of Quinoa and Sugarcane Cultivation in the Indigenous Native Municipality of Jesús de Machaca

Completed

Rural Development and Agricultural Productivity Fund

The Rural Development and Agricultural Productivity Fund was created to promote the comprehensive and equitable development of rural areas, ensuring food security and the growth of the agricultural se...

Completed

CAMBio Project

The CAMBIo Project, established in 2008 by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), seeks to...

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)

Women living in the Amazon Trapeze area. Peru.

Increase in native potato seed production

Producing healthy food for self-consumption and marketing in Loja, a border region of Ecuador

Validation of a productive planning system

Dry broad bean production, marketing, and processing project

Rural Development and Agricultural Productivity Fund

CAMBio Project