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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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Transformational Agroecology across food, land and water systems

This initiative aims to develop and scale agroecological innovations with small-scale farmers and other agricultural and food system actors in different socioecological contexts in seven low- and midd...

Implementation- Ongoing

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

ClimBeR: Building Systemic Resilience against Climate Variability and Extremes

This initiative will transform the climate resilience of food, land and water systems in six low- and middle-income countries, ultimately increasing the resilience of smallholder production systems to...

Implementation- Ongoing

Resilient Cities Through Sustainable Urban and Peri-Urban Agrifood Systems

This Initiative aims to provide research support to strengthen the vibrant, largely informal urban and peri-urban agri-food sector to help improve sustainability, equity and growth opportunities and m...

Implementation- Ongoing

AgriLAC Resiliente: Resilient Agrifood Innovation Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

Resilient AgriLAC is an initiative co-designed to transform agrifood systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. It aims to increase the resilience, ecosystem services and competitiveness of these sys...

Implementation- Ongoing

Nature-Positive Solutions for Shifting Agrifood Systems to More Resilient and Sustainable Pathways

The objective of this Initiative is to re-imagine, co-create and implement agri-food systems based on nature-positive solutions that equitably support local food and livelihoods, while ensuring that a...

Completed

Plant health and rapid response to perfect food security and livelihoods

The objective of this Initiative is to protect the agriculture-based economies of low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America from devastating crop pest incursions and disease o...

Implementation- Ongoing

Livestock, Climate, and System Resilience

This Initiative aims to address the "double burden" that climate change poses to livestock production in Africa and Latin America. Researchers are working with public and private actors to identify ex...

Completed

Climate-smart technologies (IVTs) research and validation initiatives

The Technological Validation Initiatives (IVTs) program in Argentina has as its main objectives to connect the demands of agricultural producers with technological advances and research carried out by...

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

International Bioeconomy 2020 Program BMBF-MINCIENCIAS

To provide funding for research, development and innovation (R&D&I) projects that will be selected through a competitive process and that contribute significantly to the development of the bioeconomy...

Completed

Digitization of small-scale agriculture

The objective of the project is to develop a technology for the measurement of soil moisture to maximize production, improve food quality, optimize water use and promote the use of technologies in agr...

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)

Transformational Agroecology across food, land and water systems

Mitigate+: Low Emissions Food Systems

ClimBeR: Building Systemic Resilience against Climate Variability and Extremes

Resilient Cities Through Sustainable Urban and Peri-Urban Agrifood Systems

AgriLAC Resiliente: Resilient Agrifood Innovation Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

Nature-Positive Solutions for Shifting Agrifood Systems to More Resilient and Sustainable Pathways

Plant health and rapid response to perfect food security and livelihoods

Livestock, Climate, and System Resilience

Climate-smart technologies (IVTs) research and validation initiatives

Scaling continuous improvement in family organic export banana

International Bioeconomy 2020 Program BMBF-MINCIENCIAS

Digitization of small-scale agriculture