Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
33% of the total agricultural area of Bahia corresponds to family farming, representing 593,000 farms on 9 million hectares (Sanchez et al., 2021).
Brazil accounts for 0.4% of the world's organic production area, totaling 1,136,857 hectares (Sanchez et al., 2021).
4% was the average annual growth of new organic producers registered in Bahia during 2018-2020 (Sanchez et al., 2021).
43% represented the average annual growth of new organic producers registered in Bahia between 2015 and 2017 (Sanchez et al., 2021).
76.8% of farms in Brazil are family farms, occupying 23% of the total area (Soares et al., 2021).
5.7 million hectares of eucalyptus has Brazil for timber, energy and construction production (Da Silva R. F. F. B. et al., 2019).
15% of Brazil's territory occupies the Atlantic Forest, a critical biome with 35% of the country's plants and the most threatened (Da Silva R. F. F. B. et al., 2019).
Up to 0.5 years of learning could be lost in Brazil's poorest municipalities due to rising temperatures (World Bank, 2024).
75% of agricultural production in the Latin America and Caribbean region is represented by Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico (de Olloqui & Fernández Díez, 2017).
4.21% represents the value added of agriculture as a percentage of GDP in Brazil in 2019, decreasing from 4.34% in 2011, with a variation of -3% (de Araújo Ramos et al., 2023).
