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1.7 million disaster displacements
1.7 million new internal displacements caused by disasters were recorded in 2024 in Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Haiti and Ecuador alone, according to the 2025 Global Report on Internal Displacement cited by the source. -
Two mechanisms protect rural investment
2 economic protection mechanisms, market diversification and agricultural insurance, are included in the plan to prevent price declines and facilitate the recovery of affected producers' investments. -
Four sectors have preventive measures
4 productive sectors, agriculture, livestock, aquaculture and fisheries, have differentiated preventive measures under Ecuador's Contingency Plan for the possible occurrence of El Niño.
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1.7 million disaster displacements
1.7 million new internal displacements caused by disasters were recorded in 2024 in Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Haiti and Ecuador alone, according to the 2025 Global Report on Internal Displacement cited by the source.
Two mechanisms protect rural investment
2 economic protection mechanisms, market diversification and agricultural insurance, are included in the plan to prevent price declines and facilitate the recovery of affected producers' investments.
Four sectors have preventive measures
4 productive sectors, agriculture, livestock, aquaculture and fisheries, have differentiated preventive measures under Ecuador's Contingency Plan for the possible occurrence of El Niño.
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50% Subsidy on the Commercial Cost of Urea for Farmers
National initiative implemented by Ecuador's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock to subsidize 50% of the commercial cost of a 50-kilogram bag of urea. The government allocated USD 27 million to the subsidy, targeting more than 100,000 small and medium-sized farmers across the country's 24 provinces. Producers must be registered in the Ministry's systems and purchase the fertilizer from authorized suppliers, paying half of the price; the supplier subsequently invoices the subsidized amount to the Ministry. Urea is mainly intended for rice, maize, wheat, potato, pasture, sugar cane and fruit crops.
Climate-Smart Livestock in Ecuador: A Strategic Partnership between FAO and the Private Sector
Pilot project implemented in Cayambe, Pichincha Province, to strengthen the capacities of technicians and family livestock producers in Climate-Smart Livestock. The intervention adapted and validated participatory tools, identified good livestock practices, improved digital data collection and analysis, and estimated greenhouse gas emissions using tools such as ODK and GLEAM-R. It was developed by Ecuadorian public institutions, FAO, GEF, and the company El Ordeño.
Accelerating the Sustainable Transformation of Ecuadorian Banana Industry (Ecuador Green Footprint Project)
The project seeks to promote the sustainable transformation of Ecuador's banana industry by reducing its environmental footprint and ensuring compliance with international sustainability standards. It strengthens institutional and policy frameworks, improves national systems for monitoring, reporting, and verifying carbon and water footprints, and builds capacities for the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices across the value chain.
Policy frameworks
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National Action Plan for the 2026-2027 El Niño Event
Ecuadorian binding national plan that coordinates technical, operational and financial capacities for prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery from the impacts of the 2026-2027 El Niño event. It establishes impact scenarios, monitoring and warning arrangements, multisectoral and territorial actions, institutional responsibilities, funding and follow-up mechanisms to protect the population, livelihoods, strategic infrastructure, essential services, productive sectors and ecosystems.
Ecuador: Ministerial Agreement No. 032 - Instructions for the delivery of the partial subsidy of beekeeping kits for beekeeping associations and independent beekeepers of the FPARTAA Project
It regulates the delivery of a partial subsidy covering 75% of the cost of beekeeping kits—comprising live material (queen bees), beekeeping equipment, and inputs—to nonprofit beekeeping associations and independent beekeepers across continental Ecuador, under Component 3 of the FPARTAA project. The mechanism operates through resource transfer agreements with the state bank BanEcuador, cooperation agreements with supplying companies, and co-execution agreements with beneficiaries, who cover a 25% co-payment. The policy prioritizes family and smallholder farmers and aims for at least 24% female participation, strengthening sustainable honey production among small and medium-scale beekeepers.
Contingency Plan for African Swine Fever in Ecuador
The Contingency Plan for African Swine Fever in Ecuador establishes a strategic guide for early detection, rapid response and effective eradication of African Swine Fever. The document defines response phases from alert to animal health emergency, sanitary measures, diagnostic protocols, national operational organization, recovery, restocking, compensation, biosecurity and risk communication, with coordination between the public and private sectors.
Good practices
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Buen Vivir in Rural Territories Programme
The programme aims to improve food security and livelihoods of food-insecure rural households in poverty, largely dependent on small-scale agriculture and vulnerable to climate change. It promotes an endogenous territorial development model centred on family-scale agroecological production, organizational and community capacity strengthening, and investment in territorial economic initiatives. It supports the implementation of national food sovereignty policy within a complementarity framework across government levels, with attention to sustainable water and natural resource management.
ImpactCAF: Towards a resilient, sustainable, and regenerative agricultural sector
Institutional program of the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) aimed at evaluating, highlighting, and strengthening the impact of its financing and technical cooperation operations in the agricultural sector of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The initiative promotes a model of sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative agriculture, integrating climate resilience, technological innovation, efficient management of natural resources, and the inclusion of small producers in sustainable value chains.
Promotion of agro-industrial exports of prioritized products
As part of efforts to strengthen Andean agri-food trade, the promotion of exports is being encouraged through a comprehensive characterization of international markets, aimed at identifying trends, specific demands, and strategic opportunities for agricultural products from the Member Countries. This work includes the analysis of market access conditions, as well as the identification of logistical and regulatory barriers that hinder the competitiveness of value chains, particularly those linked to family farming. In addition, the export potential of prioritized products is being assessed, with a view to improving their actual prospects for entry into external markets through technical assistance, trade promotion, and regulatory alignment. These efforts are integrated into a regional strategy to promote international trade, focused on leveraging subregional synergies, generating added value, and positioning Andean agri-food products as sustainable, traceable, and high-quality.
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