Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
The US$100 billion target for climate finance has not been met, falling significantly short of the US$3 trillion needed to adequately support Nationally Determined Contribution Plans and adaptation plans across the Caribbean (ECLAC, 2024).
8% of the 650 billion dollars issued in sustainability bonds correspond to gender bonds, mostly issued by multilateral entities such as the World Bank and the IDB (ECLAC, 2024).
Only 1% of "gender equality" funds from governments go to women's organizations (ECLAC, 2024).
USD 632 billion were recorded in global climate financing (ECLAC, 2024).
9% is the gender gap in financial access in developing countries (ECLAC, 2024).
980 million women are estimated to be excluded from formal financial systems (ECLAC, 2024).
According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2023 (SOFI 2023) global hunger in 2022 affects 9.2 percent of the world population – between 691 and 783 million people – and a total of 2.4 billion people experience moderate or severe food insecurity.
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.
10 million smallholder farmers depend on coffee as their main source of income, with coffee being produced by more than 25 million farmers in 80 countries (Bosselmann, 2008).
Between 15 % and 58 % of the daily energy in national diets comes from UPF, according to a recent review (Martini et al., 2021).
