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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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Integration of production systems as a strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Regional technical cooperation project aimed at strengthening the resilience and climate change mitigation capacity of livestock systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. It evaluates integration pr...

Implementation- Ongoing

Sustainable intensification of production in Central America

Regional technical cooperation project focused on the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems in the Central American Dry Corridor through the incorporation of sorghum genotypes and other...

Implementation- Ongoing

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in potato-pasture systems in Ecuador and Peru

Regional technical cooperation project aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in potato-pasture production systems in the Andean region of Ecuador and Peru through conservation agriculture practic...

Implementation- Ongoing

Preparation of a national inventory of banks of used or unwanted controlled substances

The intention of this project is to develop an environmentally friendly model that enables the implementation of activities for handling and eliminating unwanted gases in the country.

Implementation- Ongoing

IN DISCUSSION: Formulation and Implementation of Integrative Agricultural Projects for Sustainable Rural Development

Enhance and incentivize agricultural production under a comprehensive approach, which promotes measures for mitigation and adaptation to climate change and good agricultural and environmental practice...

Development-design

Climate Change Resilient Productive Models

Support the scaling up or the replication of climate change resilient production models that will improve the livelihoods of poor and extremely poor families in rural areas of Guatemala, Honduras and...

Implementation- Ongoing

1st Brazil's Sustainable Sovereign Bond Issuance

The Government of Brazil has developed a Framework for the Issuance of Sustainable Sovereign Bonds, establishing the basis for issuing sovereign debt linked to budget expenditures that directly contri...

Implementation- Ongoing

Decarbonization of the Brazilian Amazon: Support for Policy Reforms

The objective of this Technical Cooperation (TC) is to accelerate structural reforms of public policies to promote sustainable and carbon-efficient economic development, in order to (i) promote fiscal...

Implementation- Ongoing

PROBOSQUES II in Colombia

In November 2023, the second phase of the ProBosques II Productive Forest Landscapes project in Colombia began. This project will provide fundamental support to the Ministry of Environment, Ministry o...

Implementation- Ongoing

Alliance of World Agricultural Heritage Systems

The main objective of the project is the valorization of traditional agricultural systems recognized as Important World Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) by the FAO or candidates to be so in the f...

Diagnosis

SABERES Program, Territorial Planning and Financial Innovation to Increase Mexico's Resilience to Climate Change

The objective of the project is to improve the capacity of organizations and small rural producers to adapt their production systems and their territory to new climatic conditions. The specific object...

Implementation- Ongoing

Innovations to reduce methane emissions in ruminants

The main objective of this proposal is to decrease emission intensity (g of CO2 Eq/kg of Meat) in bovine production systems by 10% through the implementation of technological innovations developed in...

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)

Integration of production systems as a strategy for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Sustainable intensification of production in Central America

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in potato-pasture systems in Ecuador and Peru

Preparation of a national inventory of banks of used or unwanted controlled substances

IN DISCUSSION: Formulation and Implementation of Integrative Agricultural Projects for Sustainable Rural Development

Climate Change Resilient Productive Models

1st Brazil's Sustainable Sovereign Bond Issuance

Decarbonization of the Brazilian Amazon: Support for Policy Reforms

PROBOSQUES II in Colombia

Alliance of World Agricultural Heritage Systems

SABERES Program, Territorial Planning and Financial Innovation to Increase Mexico's Resilience to Climate Change

Innovations to reduce methane emissions in ruminants