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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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National Family Farming Plan Costa Rica 2020-2030.

This plan seeks to establish actions for the integral and inclusive development of PA and its relevance as a way of life, taking governance and intersectoral issues as the key. Through the development...

Implementation- Ongoing

Puente Agro as a territorial component of the Bridge to Development Strategy.

Contribute to the improvement of the economy of vulnerable farming families in rural areas, through the development of productive initiatives that allow them to increase their level of income.

Implementation- Ongoing

Institutional Supply Program (PAI)

Increase the participation of micro, small and medium agribusinesses of the social economy, in the Institutional market through the Institutional Supply Program, PAI.

Implementation- Ongoing

Programa MELYT Mujeres Economía Local y Territorios. Mujeres empoderadas en territorios dinámicos (EN)

The NGO Heifer Ecuador, in alliance with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, implements the initiative “Agroecological Routes,” which aims to promote direct marketing channels for agroecologica...

National Strategy for the Development of Organic and Agroecological Production of the Republic of Guatemala 2013-2023

The strategy seeks, through the principles of sustainability, gender equity, social inclusiveness and cultural relevance, fair trade and solidarity. As well as through four components: development and...

Implementation- Ongoing

Strategic Plan for Food and Nutrition Security 2016-2020.

The plan seeks to achieve the effective functioning of the SINASAN bodies in a sustainable manner, at the local, municipal departmental, regional and national, according to the legal frameworks of reg...

Completed

NAMA for a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Livestock Sector in Honduras

The NAMA for a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Livestock Sector in Honduras seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector through sustainable practices that increase farm product...

Implementation- Ongoing

Rural Sustainable Development Project in the Semi-arid Region of Bahia

This project aims to reduce poverty in rural areas of the Brazilian state of Bahia through increasing production, creating agricultural and non-agricultural work opportunities, and developing human an...

Implementation- Ongoing

Sustainable Colombian Livestock Project - Additional Financing Critical Deforestation Zone Meta

The project seeks to promote the adoption of environmentally friendly livestock production systems to improve natural resource management, increase environmental services and raise productivity on par...

Completed

Productivity and sustainability of small-scale coffee growers in the northern region of Huehuetenango and Quiché.

The project seeks to contribute to the economic growth of small coffee producers in the department of Huehuetenango through ASOBAGRI. The program includes reimbursable financing for working capital an...

Implementation- Ongoing

Solidarity Communities

Solidarity Communities is an intervention that seeks to provide comprehensive care to families and people facing higher levels of poverty and social exclusion in urban and rural areas of the country....

Implementation- Ongoing

Rural Development and Modernization Project for the Eastern Region

The Rural Development and Modernization Project for the Eastern Region (PRODEMORO) aims to reduce rural poverty in the departments of La Unión, Morazán, San Miguel and Usulután through strategies for...

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)

National Family Farming Plan Costa Rica 2020-2030.

Puente Agro as a territorial component of the Bridge to Development Strategy.

Institutional Supply Program (PAI)

Programa MELYT Mujeres Economía Local y Territorios. Mujeres empoderadas en territorios dinámicos (EN)

National Strategy for the Development of Organic and Agroecological Production of the Republic of Guatemala 2013-2023

Strategic Plan for Food and Nutrition Security 2016-2020.

NAMA for a Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Livestock Sector in Honduras

Rural Sustainable Development Project in the Semi-arid Region of Bahia

Sustainable Colombian Livestock Project - Additional Financing Critical Deforestation Zone Meta

Productivity and sustainability of small-scale coffee growers in the northern region of Huehuetenango and Quiché.

Solidarity Communities

Rural Development and Modernization Project for the Eastern Region