Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
60% higher than control communities was the orange sweet potato adoption rate in the Uganda and Mozambique intervention (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
20-50% of rural households sell maize after satisfying their own food needs in Zambia (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
51% of employees in urban areas have a written employment contract, and only 27% in rural areas (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
58% of the LAC population was rural in 1950 and 20% in 2015 (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
5% or less is usually the open rural unemployment rate in most LAC countries (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
30% is rural poverty among wage earners in rural areas and self-employed workers in 2015 in LAC (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
68% was the representation of labor income in rural areas with respect to income in urban areas in LAC (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
50% higher are incomes from rural non-farm jobs compared to farm incomes (New Society, 2017).
10.5% was the proportion of unionized rural wage workers employed in agriculture or rural non-agricultural activities in 2014 (Nueva Sociedad, 2017).
50% of rural microenterprise workers are youth as youth labor inclusion indicator (Martín Manzano, 2012).
