Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
More than US$10 billion is the surplus exhibited by the aggregated trade balance of the CAN agricultural sector, reflecting its strong export performance (Furche, 2024).
They reached US$20.559 billion, representing just over 13% of the total import value of the subregion (Furche, 2024).
Nearly 20% of the total export value corresponds to the consolidated exports of the CAN countries, reaching an amount of US$30,628 m, reflecting the importance of intraregional trade in economic strengthening (Furche, 2024).
2,800 million dollars annually represent Mexico's avocado exports to the world, positioning itself as the main global exporter of this fruit, followed by Peru with approximately 1,200 million dollars (Velásquez, A., 2025).
96.5 million tons was the total catch in 2022, marked by an exceptional peak of anchoveta reported by Peru and Chile (FAO, 2024).
2% drop in Peruvian aquaculture in 2022 compared to 2020, due to a 44.2% decrease in the harvest of farmed fish (FAO, 2024).
Between 7000 and 8000 years B.C. date the records of the origin of avocado in Mexico and Central America, being one of the crops with the greatest archaeological documentation in the American continent (Velásquez, A., 2025).
30% is the GHG reduction that Peru has committed to achieve by 2030, taking 2010 as a baseline (Beverinotti, J et al., 2023).
0.22 is the fraction of glaciers that Peru has lost in 30 years, being home to 71 % of the world's tropical glaciers (Cosbey and Vogt-Schilb, 2023).
48% of Peru's agricultural emissions come from cropland and 39% from pasture, mainly due to land-use change (Cosbey and Vogt-Schilb, 2023).
