Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
94% of the soybean area reported in federal statistics was captured in the state mapping of Mato Grosso during 2001-2013 (Garrett et al., 2018).
30 hectares of land were transformed by the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project, converting pastures into an organic agroforestry project (Govia & Roopnarine, 2024).
Brazil accounts for 0.4% of the world's organic production area, totaling 1,136,857 hectares (Sanchez et al., 2021).
75% of the world's poorest people live in rural areas.
Between -11% and -14% could reduce maize, bean and rice yields by 2030, and between -19% and -24% by 2050 due to climate change, impacting food security and the rural poor (IDB, 2018).
3.4 million quintals of beans reached Honduras in record production, 500 thousand more than in 2022 (SAG, 2024).
10.5% was the proportion of unionized rural wage workers employed in agriculture or rural non-agricultural activities in 2014 (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
51% of employees in urban areas have a written employment contract, and only 27% in rural areas (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
50% higher are incomes from rural non-farm jobs compared to farm incomes (New Society, 2017).
68% was the representation of labor income in rural areas with respect to income in urban areas in LAC (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
