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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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Sustainable and Inclusive Agricultural Innovation Project

The overall objectives of the project are to improve food security and income for small family farmers. The specific objectives are to increase the profitability, improve the resilience to shocks (wea...

Implementation- Ongoing

Project for the Promotion of Climate Resilience in the Rural Communities of the Northeast of Brazil

The objective of the project is to reduce the effects of climate change and increase the resilience of the affected populations in the Northeast Region, a region of mostly semi-arid lands. Through the...

Implementation- Ongoing

ESP: Innovation for Rural Competitiveness Project - COMRURAL III (P174328)

Contribute to market access, adoption of climate-smart approaches and job creation in support of project beneficiaries in selected agrifood value chains; and (ii) in the event of an Eligible Crisis or...

Implementation- Ongoing

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

Connecting Watershed Health with Sustainable Livestock and Agroforestry Production

The project aims to improve integrated landscape management and promote climate-smart production practices in selected watersheds in Mexico. It is part of the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration Im...

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

Productive Development of the Amazonian Provinces through Agricultural Innovations and Differentiated Commercialization

The objective of the project is to promote innovation processes for access to differentiated markets for Amazonian production, with a focus on efficiency, good practices and sustainability.

Implementation- Ongoing

ESP: Mejoramiento y Fortalecimiento de las Capacidades Productivas en la Producción Hortofrutícola

Incrementar la producción frutícola en el distrito de Maras para mejorar las condiciones de vida de los productores de la zona.

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

Peasant Hands Stamp

The purpose of the program is to make visible and differentiate products and services of Peasant Family Agriculture (AFC), through the awarding of an incentive that consists of authorization to use th...

Implementation- Ongoing

Animal Production and Improvement Program (DICTA Honduras)

The Animal Production and Improvement Program aims to promote the production of animals with high genetic quality to benefit livestock producers at the national level. The program conducts research an...

Development-design

PIMA Improving market access for organized agricultural producers and indigenous communities in the Eastern Region

The project aims to improve market access for organized agricultural producers and indigenous communities in the Eastern Region of Paraguay, through investments in value chains, strengthening the capa...

Implementation- Ongoing

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)

Sustainable and Inclusive Agricultural Innovation Project

Project for the Promotion of Climate Resilience in the Rural Communities of the Northeast of Brazil

ESP: Innovation for Rural Competitiveness Project - COMRURAL III (P174328)

Scaling continuous improvement in family organic export banana

Connecting Watershed Health with Sustainable Livestock and Agroforestry Production

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

Productive Development of the Amazonian Provinces through Agricultural Innovations and Differentiated Commercialization

ESP: Mejoramiento y Fortalecimiento de las Capacidades Productivas en la Producción Hortofrutícola

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

Peasant Hands Stamp

Animal Production and Improvement Program (DICTA Honduras)

PIMA Improving market access for organized agricultural producers and indigenous communities in the Eastern Region