Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
20% is the negative difference between the proportion of women with financial services in Colombia compared to men (Castro, 2017).
20 million people in farm households in developing countries are growing and consuming biofortified crops according to HarvestPlus (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
6 countries receive technical assistance from HarvestPlus for biofortification programs in Latin America and the Caribbean: Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
Roughly 79% of the food consumed in Colombia is produced by family farming (CNIA, 2016).
30% of Colombian farmers are women (CNIA, 2016).
In 10 out of 11 countries in LAC, the percentage of female agricultural researchers increased from 2006 to 2012/2013 (IDB and IFPRI, 2016)
6 (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela) of the 17 most megadiverse countries in the world are in LAC.
26% of women in Colombia own agricultural units (DANE, 2020).
78.4% of farms in Colombia are family farms (1,584,892 units) with an average area of 4.48 ha.
1.7 million tons was the amount of stimulants, spices, and aromatic crops harvested by the CAN in 2022, representing 130 thousand tons more than in 2021, when production reached 1.5 million tons (SG CAN, 2023).
