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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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Ally for Conservation, SERNANP, Peru

Ally for Conservation is a brand created by the National Service of Natural Protected Areas (SERNANP) to distinguish products and services that prioritize the care of nature and the sustainable use of...

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...

Alliance for Our Tortilla [EN]

The Alliance for Our Tortilla unites civil organizations, tortilla factories, activists, the scientific community, and corn producers. The Alliance invites all of society to demand and demand quality...

Implementation- Ongoing

Beyond Chocolate [EN]

Beyond Chocolate is a partnership for a sustainable Belgian chocolate industry. The initiative's partners work to end deforestation, stimulate the education of future generations, and provide a living...

Implementation- Ongoing

Colombia Cocoa, Forests and Peace Initiative (CB&P)

Cocoa, Forests & Peace (CB&P) is a public–private initiative aimed at promoting zero-deforestation cocoa production models that support the protection and restoration of ecosystems and forests linked...

Implementation- Ongoing

Countryside Warehouse – Earth Products [EN]

Armazém do Campo – Produtos da Terra is a marketing initiative of the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST). It sells organic and agroecological food from Agrarian Reform settlements, family and peas...

Implementation- Ongoing

Rural World Store Network [EN]

The Rural World Store Network is an initiative of INDAP, part of the National Marketing Program, with support from the University of Chile. The Network seeks to raise awareness of Family Farming (FFA)...

Implementation- Ongoing

PNAE purchases of organic products from family farming [EN]

The National School Feeding Program (PNAE) uses federal resources to fund food services for students enrolled in all stages and modalities of basic education nationwide. This case highlights the speci...

Implementation- Ongoing

Sol Orgánica [EN]

Sol Orgánica, S.A. is a Nicaraguan food processing company that sources, produces, and markets certified organic, all-natural, solar-dried fruit purees and juices and tropical fruits for export to Nor...

Implementation- Ongoing

Sistema Participativo de Garantías del Ayllu Phanacachi (Bolivia) (EN)

Ayllu Phanacachi es una organización indígena originaria perteneciente al pueblo Charka, situada en el municipio de Chayanta de la Región del Norte de Potosí en Bolivia. En la actualidad, la organizac...

Implementation- Ongoing

CCPIP: Chamber of Commerce of the Indigenous Peoples of Peru [EN]

The Chamber of Commerce of Indigenous Peoples of Peru (CCPIP) is the leading national Indigenous organization dedicated to generating economic opportunities in Peru based on its ancestral values of...

Implementation- Ongoing

Esperanza Yerbatera Cooperation Consortium [EN]

The Esperanza Yerbatera Cooperation Consortium seeks to market artisanal quality, based on cooperative work values, respecting the work of producing families, and contributing to development by promot...

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)

Ally for Conservation, SERNANP, Peru

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

Alliance for Our Tortilla [EN]

Beyond Chocolate [EN]

Colombia Cocoa, Forests and Peace Initiative (CB&P)

Countryside Warehouse – Earth Products [EN]

Rural World Store Network [EN]

PNAE purchases of organic products from family farming [EN]

Sol Orgánica [EN]

Sistema Participativo de Garantías del Ayllu Phanacachi (Bolivia) (EN)

CCPIP: Chamber of Commerce of the Indigenous Peoples of Peru [EN]

Esperanza Yerbatera Cooperation Consortium [EN]