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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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Chicken exports rise 16.5%
3.815 million tonnes of chicken meat were exported by Brazil between January and August 2026, 16.5% more than in the same period of 2025; revenue reached USD 7.543 billion.
Retail potato price rises 69.1%
69.1% was the increase in the retail price of smooth-skinned potatoes in Paraná between August and September 2026, rising from BRL 4.15 to BRL 7.01 per kilogram.
Wheat crop quality deteriorates
182 thousand hectares of wheat remained to be harvested in Paraná: 12% of the area was in poor condition, 42% in average condition, and 46% in good condition.
Production reaches 78.7 million pounds
78.7 million pounds of shrimp were produced by Honduras from January through August 2026, compared with 76 million pounds during the same period of 2025.
Loss of 13 million pounds
13 million pounds of shrimp are estimated to have been lost because of drought and high salinity, reducing the annual production target from 159 million to 146 million pounds.

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CDPAC Strategy: Community Agricultural and Livestock Production Development Centers

The CDPACs seek to improve agricultural production systems, based on an integrated management model and public-private partnerships to have differentiated markets and strengthen associative concepts....

Implementation- Ongoing

Saint Lucia and Grenada; Brown Gold - Community Compost.

Implementation of Brown Gold community compost in St. Lucia and Grenada. Funded by the Australian High Commission (AHC).

Completed

Implementation of the Government Support Program for Community and Rural Sectors “Productive Pickup Truck”

Project of Ecuador's Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries to implement, promote and evaluate the Productive Pickup Truck Government Program. The program supports the mobilit...

Completed

Modernization of Institutions in the Agricultural Sector

The Modernization of Institutions in the Agricultural Sector axis seeks to strengthen infrastructure and institutional capacity through a series of public interventions. These include updating regulat...

Implementation- Ongoing

Peasant Markets Program

The “Farmer Markets” Network is an initiative of the INDAP Marketing Program, which seeks to consolidate under common principles and make visible the existing and future initiatives of Peasant Markets...

Implementation- Ongoing

Living Lab Uruguay: validating agtech solutions for greater resilience to climate change

The objective of the project is to set up a first pilot experience of a living lab or regional open laboratory, in which to regional open laboratory, in which to co-innovate (validate, evaluate and sh...

Implementation- Ongoing

Services Towards Capacity Building for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Fisheries Sector in Barbados,...

Blue economy development for the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) especially a group such as the agricultural sector, is a necessity in the foreground, due to the demand they occupy to imp...

Completed

Program: Paraguay as a Mercosur Logistics Center

The objective is to create collaboration among countries in the region for the design, testing and infrastructure of more efficient and inclusive transportation and logistics policies.

Implementation- Ongoing

Strengthening Community Waste Management through a Process of Awareness, Capacity Building, and Teamwork in the Theory a...

To strengthen the capacity of members of two communities in Grenada in waste management by identifying and separating organic materials that can be converted into compost for use by the community memb...

Completed

Initiatives

Chicken exports rise 16.5%

Retail potato price rises 69.1%

Wheat crop quality deteriorates

Production reaches 78.7 million pounds

Loss of 13 million pounds

CDPAC Strategy: Community Agricultural and Livestock Production Development Centers

Saint Lucia and Grenada; Brown Gold - Community Compost.

Implementation of the Government Support Program for Community and Rural Sectors “Productive Pickup Truck”

Modernization of Institutions in the Agricultural Sector

Peasant Markets Program

Living Lab Uruguay: validating agtech solutions for greater resilience to climate change

Services Towards Capacity Building for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Fisheries Sector in Barbados,...

Program: Paraguay as a Mercosur Logistics Center

Strengthening Community Waste Management through a Process of Awareness, Capacity Building, and Teamwork in the Theory a...

Food Vulnerability Reduction in La Gonave, Haiti

Services to Support the Design, Training and Maintenance of School Gardens in Primary Schools in Suriname

Support for the Strengthening of the Public Agricultural Services of Ecuador