Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
48% of the 12 million children who worked in LAC did so in agricultural activities, mainly as unpaid family members (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
Roughly 79% of the food consumed in Colombia is produced by family farming (CNIA, 2016).
30% of Colombian farmers are women (CNIA, 2016).
More than 50% of food production comes from small farmers in LAC (Rabobank, 2015).
More than two-thirds of the total family farming operations are poor in Paraguay (UNDP, 2021).
The article discusses how climate policies can benefit from land use approaches that integrate forest conservation and sustainable agriculture. Using a model applied to a hypothetical farm in South America, the authors assess the ecological and economic viability of the “compartment approach” (CAP), which proposes a mix of small plots of diverse crops, reforestation of abandoned lands and cons...
325,044 farms (82%) are classified as small producers, whose cultivation area is less than three hectares according to the agricultural census (Martín Manzano, 2012).
50,000 participating families is the goal to increase their availability and diversity of food in 2014 according to PAF indicators (Martín Manzano, 2012).
60% of participating families have managed to diversify their production and improve their food consumption pattern as PAF goal (Martín Manzano, 2012).
80% of participating families adopt good agricultural practices as an indicator of the first product of PAF-Food Security (Martín Manzano, 2012).
