Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
According to The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023, over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries/territories in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC.
2,220.7 billion USD is estimated that Latin America and the Caribbean need to invest in water and sanitation, energy, transport and telecommunications infrastructure by 2030 (ECLAC, 2024).
Between USD 3.3 billion and USD 4.576 billion is needed by the region by 2030, representing between 31% and 32% of the annual global investment required to meet the Paris Agreement targets (ECLAC, 2024).
Between 90 and 110 billion USD per year is estimated to cost the impact of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2050 (ECLAC, 2024).
USD 4.3 trillion annually must be reached by 2030 to avoid the most serious impacts of climate change, which requires a 20% annual increase in global financial flows (ECLAC, 2024).
More than 200 hurricanes that occurred between 1950 and 2014 cost the Caribbean islands an annual average of 2.5% of GDP (ECLAC, 2024).
0.9% was the average annual growth rate of Latin America and the Caribbean between 2015 and 2024, less than half of the 2.0% recorded during the lost decade of the 1980s (ECLAC, 2024).
USD 23.4 million was the annual average that WFP executed during the decade 2013-2022 in food purchases, logistics services and monetary transfers (Namdar and Saa, 2024).
57% of all agricultural GHG emissions come from nitrous oxide, where agricultural land management practices drive 94%, equivalent to 316 Tg CO2e of total U.S. N2O emissions (USEPA, 2021).
80.6 million tons of food goes unsold or uneaten after being grown, processed, transported or stored, representing 40% of all food produced in the U.S. (ReFED, 2021).
