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Cartagena Agreement Agricultural Development Program
Start Date:
1969
End Date:
2025
Description
It is a regional initiative aimed at promoting sustainable, competitive, and inclusive development of the agricultural sector in the member countries of the Andean Community. Its main objective is to harmonize agricultural policies, strengthen regional integration, improve food security, and facilitate intra-regional agri-food trade.
Iniciative Type
Action scope
Sectors:
Thematic Areas:
Countries:
Instruments:
- Sustainability Standards or Protocols
- Situation and prospective analysis (regional or international)
- Technical assistance to producers
- International technical cooperation
- Agricultural extension services
- Strategies, plans, policies or guidelines; sectoral or national
- Studies and diagnoses
- Policy to Improve Data and Information Access and Management
Results:
- Productive diversification
- Animal disease control
- Safe trade
- Plant disease control
- Impact: Sustainable Rural Development
- Improved productivity
- Improvement in technical assistance and rural extension services
- Impact: Improved biodiversity status
- Improved commercial competitiveness
- Improved market efficiency
- Improved technical capacities
- Improved public policy formulation and implementation